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Re:The boss who put everyone on 70K by mzi on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:36AM (#22441169)
I found this link[0] that tells us that the median income - adjusted for inflation - seems to be rising since 1967.

https://www.davemanuel.com/median-household-income.php

Re:The boss who put everyone on 70K by nbp160130 on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:00AM (#22441249)
This is measuring household income, not individual income. Real household income isn't increasing because wages are rising, it's increasing because more people in a household are working.
Re:The boss who put everyone on 70K by eru on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:17AM (#22441313)
On the other hand, household sizes have decreased.

(Though not sure about workers per household.)

> [...] it's increasing because more people in a household are working.

More people are working outside the house and participating in the market economy. Women worked before, domestic chores don't show up in these statistics.

Presumably they produce a lot more working outside the house: to estimate a monetary value of what they did before compare with the prevailing wages for nannies and housekeepers.