I did not read the entire article. If someone is asking the question is there to wide of a gap between the rich and the poor the answer is yes. The conservative business model says There should not be a multi-million-dollar divide between the highest paid and lowest paid company employee. Capitalism is the best market system. But by design it consolidates money at the top. If that consolidation is excessive it creates disparity that leads to social unrest.
If you factor in celebrity salaries and the disparity between the rich and poor in California, I would certainly have to say that yes, there is a disparity. The Gilded Age in that area has certainly been reborn and then there is the dot com billionaires and a lot of the other people who made it rich, but ended up not really doing anything other than being in the right place at the right time.
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"
In the end of your life... sucks to be you.
but is NOT happening....
"skills" are not being rewarded...the political class has seen to it that the unqualified, the underqualified, the "selected" are sought after, NOT the most qualified...
and the other thing that capitalism presupposed is that the market is brutal to everyone...not just American goods and services...but to everyone's ....that laws are not enacted to put foreigners at huge advantages....
crony capitalism is what we have now...
and with that, YES the rich do amass great wealth at the expense of the legitimate workers...