The top 1% in the USA became rather more exclusive since about 1980 and the Reagan revolution. Up until then, far too many middle-class professionals were knocking at the door of the top 1% by having being just a little bit more successful than their peers.
Source: The World Top Incomes Database.
If our Marxist friends are to be believed, ruling class membership should be more exclusive than that. The Rothschilds and Rockefellers and the rest of the gang could not possibly be brushing shoulders with tradesmen made good at meetings of the executive committee of the ruling class.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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