While I am grateful to see any mainstream story tell the math behind facts and trends, this one kind of misses the point. Since distribution of wealth has alway

While I am grateful to see any mainstream story tell the math behind facts and trends, this one kind of misses the point. Since distribution of wealth has always followed a power law, that's not news. So, what causes street protests is not the curve itself but the "curviness of the curve" for the last decade or so and the fact that folks at one end of the curve (guess which end?) are actively and aggressively making it harder for the ones at the other end to traverse the curve. Occupy Wall Street #OWS needs to do a better job of conveying this message: "We are not calling for redistribution of wealth but about redistribution of opportunity. We don't want to overthrow capitalism, just restore its egalitarian ideal."