• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    For something like that, you need a special graph, and I forget the name because no one uses it.

    Y axis is “percent growth” and the X axis isn’t at the bottom, it’s in the middle.

    Like, the only way I can describe it is a line graph because it technically is, but there’s some name done it.

    Capitalism doesn’t like it tho, because there’s “red numbers” and red numbers scare investors

    • aasatru@kbin.earth
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      5 months ago

      At some point recognisability is also worth something. I can immediately read this graph, I understand it, it’s good.

      Occasionally it’s used in a confusing way where people assume it starts at zero despite it not being the case, and sometimes intentionally so. But that’s just the case here.