it is only a detail of the bigger problem of 100% of all the money that exists being owned by a few thousand people.
Again, this is a much more severe problem in USD than in BTC. BTC helps to solve this problem as well, because the thousands who own most of the BTC are largely non-overlapping with the thousands who own most of the USD. The aggregate GINI is better as a result.
OM f'in G!!!!!! Are you suggesting some level of redistribution of wealth? OM f'in G, this will mean the end of the world as we know it, no?
Actually, I am NOT very worried about redistribution of wealth b/c I get the sense that the rich always figure out ways to manipulate and co-opt various innovations and institutions in order that there is NOT too much redistribution of wealth and historical inequities continue. The same is likely to be true with bitcoin - b/c even the traditional rich, once they recognize value in btc, are going to find ways to profit off of btc disproportionately to regular joe schmoes. At the same time, various innovations play out differently, and I suspect that there may be some ways that the dynamics in bitcoin will play out a bit differently (but NOT to a large degree), and some redistribution of wealth is going to take place, in spite of status quo rich manipulations that will occur... and likely already have been occurring, to some degree.
Also, I suspect that the status quo rich are going to attempt to drag out status quo systems as long as they can in order to continue to be able to continue to exploit poor people around the world for as long as they can get away with it.
Except for the early adopters of Bitcoin the redistribution of wealth won't be that extreme. Just look at the first ways to invest in Bitcoin that are popping up: SecondMarket (which is only for the existing elite) and investing in non-publically traded companies (also not for Joe Average).
Don't worry, the majority of the existing status-quo will make sure they're still part of the new status-quo as well even in the case of an extremely violent (quick) redistribution of wealth (although they'll lose some relative purchasing power to the new entrants)