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
We can’t just blame Ticketmaster and scalpers.
Why do humidifiers suck?
How the dessert company taps into the never-ending cycle of hyper-consumption.
We’ve never seen a political donor this loud, proud, and culturally influential.
Scent is a way to draw you in and, hopefully, get you to open your wallet.
And what to do with presents you just don’t want.
The wild, nonsensical world of toilet paper math, explained.
The tech billionaire’s political ambitions, explained
A new HBO documentary claims to have found the inventor of bitcoin.
Why buying a car is the worst kind of shopping.