the point you're trying to make here is completely tangential to the point being discussed in the article. the fact being reported on is that public knowledge a

the point you're trying to make here is completely tangential to the point being discussed in the article. the fact being reported on is that public knowledge about the size of the income and wealth gap is heavily flawed and most of the survey respondents used in the study believed things that were not true. the fact that the population size (and correspondingly, the GDP) is larger today than it was 40 years ago has nothing to do with this.