[slg]

>If you have a credible source that shows declining real wages since 2000, I'd love to see it.

My original comment was about growing inequality and my second comment was describing why the metric you cited and median real wages in general don't address that issue. So no, I will not be looking for a better real wages metric, because it is not the appropriate measure to capture inequality. You can find plenty of numbers and charts on that problem here[1].

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

[JumpCrisscross]

> So no, I will not be looking for a better real wages metric, because it is not the appropriate measure to capture inequality

Got it, your complaints about real wages were entirely a non sequitur.

[slg]

This is legitimately one of the strangest responses I have ever gotten on HN. You brought real wages into the conversation. My complaints weren't a non sequitur, they were a direct response to you. Now you're criticizing me for engaging with what you said? I guess I should have refused to engage from the start, but you know the proverb about the second best time to plant a tree, so I'm done with this conversation.

[JumpCrisscross]

I guess I didn't see the inequality focus in your first comment. At least, not beyond the qualitative assets as cash and sundries vs assets as financial assets. I pointed out that real wages are up in response to your claim about people being paid dollars. (The dollars we're paid are worth more. They're individually less. But the total take home is more. Hence real wage.) I think it's a non sequitur to then turn around and say well I was actually arguing about inequality from the start.