You are right, I copied the wrong graph for compensation. Here is real compensation per hour:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;fred2&#x2F;series&#x2F;COMPRNFB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;fred2&#x2F;series&#x2F;COMPRNFB</a><p>My mistake, thanks for the correction. It&#x27;s still going up.<p>The claims that wages have not risen are based entirely on cherry-picked data, carefully choosing endpoints, and ignoring non-wage compensation as well as the fact that CPI wildly overstates inflation in the long run [1].<p>Also, the graph I provided is industrial <i>production</i>, which is going up. You might be right that capacity grew faster than production (cite?), but production has also gone up.<p>[1] See, e.g. Boskin commission, the lack of hedonic adjustments in healthcare, and the variable basket of goods used in chained CPI which prevents it from actually being a long term inflation measure. (I.e., inflation from 1970-&gt;2015 should only include goods invented in 1970, but chained CPI adds new goods yearly in order to accurately measure 1983-&gt;1984 inflation.)