Because wages haven't kept up. If I'm using my wage increase to subsidise an increase in general inflation, that affects my disposable (which is the first thing to go). And this is before we analyse inflation rates in different sectors (which are details that the median obscures), which most definitely takes this into off topic territory.How is it off topic in a thread about prices and whether the new game costs more than the old game after considering inflation?
In any case, I responded to the claim that wages have not kept up with inflation. Last I checked, 0.3% is a positive number. You might wish that it was higher, but regardless, it's a positive number. Therefore, wages have kept up with inflation in the US and in fact have been very slightly better than that.
I get it. You want to believe that wages have kept up, and you believe a technicality wins you that point. All I'm trying to say is that it hasn't, and that it's not worth anyone's time to hash out why that is here.
(and I haven't even gotten started on how the median obscures the demographics per types of earner as well)
Throw me a PM if you want to get into this in more detail
