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Whizy Kim
Former Senior Reporter
Whizy Kim was a senior reporter at Vox covering wealth, economic inequality, and consumer trends. She writes about how powerful and wealthy individuals and corporations shape the politics and practices that affect the way we live. She has reported on everything from Jeff Bezos’s philanthropy to how inflation affects prices at the grocery store to Elon Musk’s disillusioned fandom. Her work unpacks hidden-in-plain-sight facets of the economy and asks: Who’s left holding the bag? Before joining Vox, Whizy was a senior writer at Refinery29, covering such wide-ranging topics as workplace burnout, student debt, the billionaire space race, and identity theft.
Latest articles by Whizy Kim
![The real reason it costs so much to go to a concert](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2191414680.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The real reason it costs so much to go to a concert](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2191414680.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
We can’t just blame Ticketmaster and scalpers.
![Everyone’s favorite frustrating, hard-to-clean, potentially dangerous household device](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/GettyImages-1292555889.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
![Everyone’s favorite frustrating, hard-to-clean, potentially dangerous household device](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/GettyImages-1292555889.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C16.666666666667%2C100%2C66.666666666667&w=2400)
Why do humidifiers suck?
![Crumbl’s massive empire was never about the cookies](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/GettyImages-2175526324.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.297727272727%2C0%2C67.404545454545%2C53.92375&w=2400)
![Crumbl’s massive empire was never about the cookies](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/GettyImages-2175526324.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.29515213714119%2C100%2C53.333445725718&w=2400)
How the dessert company taps into the never-ending cycle of hyper-consumption.
![Elon Musk and the age of shameless oligarchy](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/GettyImages-2185190580.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Elon Musk and the age of shameless oligarchy](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/GettyImages-2185190580.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
We’ve never seen a political donor this loud, proud, and culturally influential.
![Why do hotel lobbies smell like that?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/GettyImages-182771912.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=15.659635323561%2C0%2C68.680729352878%2C100&w=2400)
![Why do hotel lobbies smell like that?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/GettyImages-182771912.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C1.4662502169009%2C100%2C97.067499566198&w=2400)
Scent is a way to draw you in and, hopefully, get you to open your wallet.
![The surprisingly selfish reason people give terrible gifts](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/JoeySendayDiego_UselessGifts.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
And what to do with presents you just don’t want.
![How Big Toilet Paper dupes us all](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-1485763378.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.670859011445%2C0%2C66.65828197711%2C100&w=2400)
![How Big Toilet Paper dupes us all](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-1485763378.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0062885171676541%2C0%2C99.987422965665%2C100&w=2400)
The wild, nonsensical world of toilet paper math, explained.
![Elon Musk is Trump’s biggest booster — and patron. Why?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2178881341.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.650390625%2C0%2C66.69921875%2C100&w=2400)
![Elon Musk is Trump’s biggest booster — and patron. Why?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-2178881341.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.024402147388969%2C100%2C99.951195705222&w=2400)
The tech billionaire’s political ambitions, explained
![The $1.3 trillion question we may never answer](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-1341873866.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.663991009793%2C0%2C66.672017980414%2C100&w=2400)
![The $1.3 trillion question we may never answer](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-1341873866.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0040131631752161%2C100%2C99.99197367365&w=2400)
A new HBO documentary claims to have found the inventor of bitcoin.
![Is every car dealer trying to rip me off?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-869345488.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=5.7293703558858%2C0%2C88.541259288228%2C100&w=2400)
![Is every car dealer trying to rip me off?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GettyImages-869345488.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C12.352767962309%2C100%2C75.294464075383&w=2400)
Why buying a car is the worst kind of shopping.