HeliHelp flies in low skilled workers via helicopter, quicker than commutes and allows you to keep paying "market wages" that don't allow employees for retail/restaurants/etc to live anywhere near the place of upscale upperclass community where you need your employees to be during work. Fly them in, then fly them out, way out. HeliHelp is not only an expense, but it can be part of your employees "real compensation" to further not give any sort of wage increase.
"HeliHelp: Better to buy a helicopter than to pay above market wages" /s
On a serious note:
Workers share of GDP has been in constant decline since the 70s [1].
Velocity of money is at all time lows and off a cliff [2].
Household income has been normalized, sideways [3]. Middle class is not getting richer but flat.
Those are signs that wages are not growing as fast as they could or should. A better economy comes when more people have consumer spending supply and that increases demand across the board. Demand brings investment.
Wage increases have essentially been efficiently worked out of the system, and at a certain point that is a more stagnant economy than we could have which affects lower, middle and upper classes.
Wealth does not spend enough to fuel an economy, you need the middle and lower to be consumers that have demand, with money in their pockets before the rich will invest.
Middle class is still getting pummeled and nothing has changed.
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
[3] https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2016/12/the-puzzle-of-real-m...