300,000 New US Millionaires. Oh My.

Sad news for egalitarians. According to data from Spectrum Group, the Chicago-based wealth research firm, there are now 8.99 million U.S. households whose net worth totals $1 million or more (not including primary residence). That's up from 8.6 million in 2011 and just short of the all-time record set in 2006, when the United States had 9.2 million millionaire households.

So what is an egalitarian to do about this? Hope for a stock market crash and another recession? Punish 300,000 people who invested in the stocks and real estate that fueled their wealth increase? Make sure they won't do it again?