Most Americans have experienced real wage growth in the past couple of years, accounting for price inflation: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/workers-paychecks-are-growing-more-quickly-than-prices/

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@koavf I know. It's just that prices are still bad, and wages are still bad, and for millions of us, the supposed benefits outlined in that article do not appear to exist.

@AskTheDevil But to what extent is that actually true and to what extent is that a perception that is encouraged by right-wing nihilists hoping to harm America? The facts are that 1.) presidents can only do so much to impact an economy (especially positively: they can really wreck things, but are constrained in how much they can build up an entire economy) and 2.) the American economy is _much_ stronger than virtually anywhere, including Europe or East Asia.

@koavf I don't listen to right-wing nihilists, so it's probably not that.

It's because I can see the bills, and the rent, and the housing prices, and the grocery prices, and the wages, when I look them up and speak to the people in my rather considerable tribe. I know from comparison shopping, and from looking at locations in other areas of the country on the same shopping sites. I know it from contacts that still work in the industry.

Nobody is doing better that I know.