That doesn't mean you don't have lots of people in high cost of living areas that lost purchasing power due to cost of housing or whatever. It just means that the aggregate effect is likely enough to have been an increase.
CEOs weren’t furious about “social progress”. That’s a projection of class warfare mentality.
It was, however, frustrating to see a blatantly obvious economic bubble driven by out of control government spending, which unsurprisingly has now popped. There were points in 2021 when we had junior applicants who could barely talk through the simplest interview questions but demanded senior/staff level comp because that was the going rate in the temporarily distorted market.
Many companies hired at those exaggerated rates anyway, then started cutting deeply when the market changed and they realized they were holding the bag on a lot of overpaid, under qualified hires. Other companies just sat on the sidelines and waited it out. It was the only time I remember having multiple candidates turn us down for better offers, only to message me months later begging for a job because their company overhired followed by layoffs.
I've never really heard a convincing argument why class warfare doesn't exist.
Every time someone says or implies that “both parties are the same” a hungry child gets called a parasite and kicked out of a free and/or reduced price school lunch program.
> Every time someone says or implies that “both parties are the same”
Those aren't the same claims.
Rather, the claim is that the party differences, to the extent that they are different, reflect differences among the wealthy political donor class who control the politicians and the policies. There are differences of opinion and approaches among the donor class.