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> Although I've looked at the original report, it isn't clear if this $1M in annual income that they're comparing to the 1950's is inflation adjusted. The only comment I can find on this point appears to say that it isn't which makes it an unfair comparison because that's the equivalent of more than $13M today.

So far as I can tell, they're not. See my sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40059084

For instance for the 1945 figures you can clearly see that they pulled the figures they pulled were for millionaires ("1,000 [in thousands] and over").