Good question. - Lemmy.World

And here’s your answer:

Assuming the guy with the cookies is Rupert Murdoch (~$18B wealth), who he kinda resembles, and the construction worker is the median American household (~$120k wealth), then the pile should be 150,000 cookies.

I’d estimate the visible part of the drawn pile, if it’s roughly a cylinder, at about (17 *3.14 * 20) 1,068 cookies. Presumably there’s more invisible below the table so maybe 2000 cookies. But still, it should be 75 times bigger.

Context for uninitiated and vision impaired:

In the background, a man is sat atop a pile of cookies behind two other men who are seated at a table. This man is Rupert Murdoch, a former Australian and now American; the owner of a large swathe of right-wing journalistic and entertainment media whose empire has contributed to the distrust and downfall of democracy across the Anglosphere.

Pictured on the left is a dark-skinned and bearded man sat looking despondently down at the empty table in front of him. Across from him is an Anglo-Australian man who is wearing a safety helmet and hi-vis vest - a nod to the working class of Australia - with a plate and a single cookie on it. Rupert is saying to the Anglo man: “Careful mate… that foreigner wants your cookie!”

It’s a fantastic political cartoon and a great nod to the way that right-wing media and politicians have consistently convinced significant amounts of working class people to turn their frustrations at their lack of share in capital towards immigrants and foreigners as opposed to the billionaires who hoard all the wealth.