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by TheAdamAndChe 3107 days ago
Individuals may do better than average, but the trend in the US has been a widening gap between the upper class and everyone else combined with stagnant wages[1]. This has been due to many reasons like outsourcing, (illegal) immigration, automation, dissolution of anti-trust legislation, and the trend away from unionization in most industries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-class_squeeze