### Comment:
Not true at all. The price of most consumer goods has DRASTICALLY fallen compared to wages. The cost of housing, education, and healthcare have gone up, but you are talking about general purchasing power.

### REPLY:
&gt;The price of most consumer goods has DRASTICALLY fallen compared to wages. 
  
 But what matters is how much the cost of goods has fallen relative to output.  If output grows even faster then the reduction in costs of goods (it has) it translates into more money per production-per-capita – which it has (just not for the workers doing the actual work though).

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