Your graphic includes anyone who makes over 100k. Thats not rich in many areas. Another thing your graph ignores is the fact that MANY, MANY more high earners were created in that time frame.

The 80's, and particularly the 90's had an extremely high degree of class mobility, which is the real key to judging the fairness of a society.

Also, I wonder what your graph would look like if it included the housing crash. It says it includes income derived from Capital Gains, but is it counting hypothetical income - ie: is it including rising home values while they were skyrocketing, or just real income from dividends etc?

Keep in mind also, that cost of living in many areas rose to such a degree - in large part because earnings were. People making 100k in any market arent exactly the people pictured in your cartoon caption, and people living in expensive market making 100k are just making average money.

Comparisons and charts such as that one play a big part in getting people who seriously study the subject matter to turn a deaf ear to those on the Left.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)