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by gottorf 1028 days ago
> It's about purchasing power; not just real wages.

Real wage means purchasing power parity, or it should. These two statements cannot be true, if they are using the same definition of inflation:

- Real wages have risen over the past 50 years

- Today's real average wage has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago

The methodology must be different.