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If that's what "you've seen", then you aren't looking in the right places.

Look at the graphs of real wages vs productivity that start pre-1970. Yes, it's true that real wages have gone up some since that time, but they remain completely divorced from productivity in a way that's totally different from the time before Reagan.

Meanwhile, the income/wealth of the highest earners has gone up astronomically during the same time.

They are staggeringly wealthy because they have redirected the flow of money from us to them. This is a very clearly visible and uncontroversial fact. The controversy is simply over whether it is a good thing.



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