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by a2dam 300 days ago
Salaries have outpaced inflation until recently.
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Don’t even bother coming here with facts. Inflation is just a vibe, dude. Never mind that real median personal incomes are up 10 percent in the last decade.
> Salaries have outpaced inflation until recently.

This is just not true.

Take a look at a chart of real median income. Which while it is admittedly somewhat different from salary, is a hell of lot more than “nuh-uh”

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

"household income". Not individual. It used to only take one person working to support a family.
Thank you, I did indeed mean income and not salary (though real median salary for full time workers has also outpaced inflation).