Streaming service subscriptions

Between 2010 and 2022, Chinese billionaires and streaming subscriptions both grew, correlating at 0.9621 across thirteen data points. The broader correlation reflects the same global economic expansion that minted billionaires in Shenzhen and subscribers in Topeka, driven by the same decade of growth that made everything go up at once. Some of the billionaires are in tech and entertainment, making the overlap partially real, but the correlation is mostly measuring the 2010s themselves.

Chinese billionaires grew from 64 to over 400. Streaming subscriptions grew to over 1.5 billion globally. Both are growth stories from the same decade of global technology and economic expansion.

Global economic expansion during the 2010s pushed many metrics upward simultaneously. The billionaire and the subscription share a decade of growth, not a boardroom.