I suspect the person you’re responding to is not really talking about truly low paying jobs - more likely entry level out of college jobs. (Not that I expect those are in aggregate underwater either.)

I remember from even better days than today, but the entry job out of college had become an unpaid internship.

Which effectively limited them to people that already had very stable and financially supportive family situations.

Part of the reason that class mobility is going down. Although I think most of the production in class mobility is due to the disappearance of the high paid blue collar job in manufacturing

Supposedly manufacturing will be re- onshored in the next decade depending on who you talk to. So the tide may be turning?

But the lowest income workers are also hit hardest by rising costs.

right but they're still made poorer due to M2 increasing and not being able to leverage into assets with debt.

The meaningless rhetoric of imbeciles.

If you're drowning in the ocean 100 ft below the surface, saying you managed to go 80 ft so you're still 20 ft below the surface is remarkably stupid and fails to appreciate the gravity of the situation.

Have they? Or are they all just taking on multiple part time jobs?

Meaningless when housing costs have soared. They've made wage gains because it's literally not worth it to work for $8/hr anymore and companies were unable to find workers.

Wages for the lowest quintile have gone up in real terms, meaning adjusted for inflation (including shelter costs). None of your economic beliefs are grounded reality, you just make up beliefs that flatter your politics and downvote everyone who disagrees with you.

It would be good to get real numbers, the problem is inflation does not hit everyone equally; for example my house is paid off, the housing components do not affect me at all. So if they are growing faster than the rest of the basket it does not reflect in my life.

So real gains may or may not exist without looking at the individual or individual cohort you are talking about.

I never downvote, your ad hominem is false and shows your emotionally charged mentality.

> None of your economic beliefs are grounded reality

If you think reality is defined in economic reports I have a bridge to sell you.