Also if you look at http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html table 3 you'll see that the distribution of wealth between 1% and 99% in 2007 (which I assume is pretty much the same today) was essentially identical to that of 2001, 1989, 1965, 1939 and 1922.
This suffers from the pie fallacy covered in http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Also if you look at http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html table 3 you'll see that the distribution of wealth between 1% and 99% in 2007 (which I assume is pretty much the same today) was essentially identical to that of 2001, 1989, 1965, 1939 and 1922.