Okay, let me run this past you kind of slowly:

The stock market has gone up significantly since last spring. People who own stock are going to be worth more. People who own a LOT of stock are going to be worth a LOT more. This is no skin off your nose, and it isn't coming out of the check you stand in line for.

In fact, everyone who owns stock, including millions of retirement accounts belonging to people who aren't that rich, are seeing those accounts fatten up again (assuming they were bright enough to ride out the downturn*). An awful lot of people are a bit richer today than they were six months ago. I am.

As far as the cheap shot the article takes at the Walton family, the top spots have been divided among them routinely since Sam Walton died and his fortune was divided among his family. I'm sure that irritated a lot of liberals who had much better ideas for the money.

*In a long-term retirement account, the secret word is "diversity." The secret word for the equity portion of the account is "hold."