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You're literally linking to a graph that ONLY measures the wages of fully employed people in the US. It doesn't measure the under employed, part time employees, or contract/gig workers - at a time when all those categories all became more prevalent...
...and it certainly doesn't measure changes in wealth share globally. So way to cherry pick.
In fact, the rate of underemployment (gig workers who'd like to work more hours, etc.) is at historically low levels in the US.
You're getting all these replies from me because of how many times you've used income inequality ir employment stats to cover for billionaires...
....who as you know, have the most concentrated wealth, and avoid income taxes by not taking a wage.
Income equality is so even because the ultra rich don't take an income.
They buy up assets at inflated prices, they buy up the media companies you're complaining are fascist AND MAKE THEM FASCIST.
Then they borrow against those assets and luve off loans. Buying more assets to get more loans, or getting paid in stocks to borrow more money against.
So they inflate prices on luxury homes, land, goods, vehicles, assets, and companies. Increasing their wealth further and further away from everyone else, whilst everyone else pays the taxes billionaires avoid... Suffers the more expensive land values, houses, goods.
.... they're totally corrupting society. Musk just recently silenced a Twitter account that tracks Donald Trump's stock investments BECAUSE Musk bought Twitter then took out massive loans against it.
It's the biggest corruption scam in your lifetime. Probably the biggest in history.