The U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France did:

(Source: The Intellectualist)

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It is amazing we even have data on 1760-90 wealth distribution? I wonder if it is just from tax records, and given that wealthy people have been doing their best to evade taxes since the days of ancient Rome, I would assume that wealth was underreported in prorevolutionary France.