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Wages are only going up if you are at the very top. The bottom half is not going up.

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2020/09/1...

This is a rough claim to make today. There a "fight" for 15, now most places are paying 15 for labor and Amazon warehouses are pushing 25. In the last year its pretty clear ages have gone up for the bottom half and by a large margin.

> In the last year its pretty clear ages have gone up for the bottom half and by a large margin.

Primarily because the very lowest paid have entirely left the labour market. Lop off the lowest 10% and the average rises.

You can look at the actual numbers, or you can blindly conjecture something must be "pretty clear".

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