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Wages don’t seem to have raised at the same rate at all.

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

Weirdly, most graphs start getting off in the 1970s when the US left the gold standard. This is to be expected due to the Cantillon Effect.

https://river.com/learn/terms/c/cantillon-effect/



>>As long as wages raise as well, it's not a problem. You shouldn't compare prices to prices 100 years ago, but purchasing power 100 years ago to purchasing power now.

>Wages don’t seem to have raised at the same rate at all.

>https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

Figure 1 from that link is compares actual income with "projected assuming no growth in inequality"... whatever that means, not inflation.

Figure 2 compares hourly compensation with productivity, not inflation

and on and on...

Real wages (ie. inflation adjusted) has gone up, albeit slowly[1]. Even your link suggests this. "Stagnation" implies staying in the same place, not falling behind.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q


A good website on this:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/




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