Median/below median wages are in decline in the US, period. Healthcare,... It's completely nonsensical to adjust wages for the cost of healthcare when healthca

Median/below median wages are in decline in the US, period. Healthcare,... It's completely nonsensical to adjust wages for the cost of healthcare when healthcare is primarily paid by non-wage benefits. It's also nonsensical to ignore total comp and focus on wages, unless of course you are cherrypicking. Matstroller has effectively addressed your other issues, so I feel no need to. Note also that Branko Milanovic - the source of your graph - explicitly says that global income inequality is decreasing in his book. From a book review: "Milanovic, like Bourguignon, stresses one encouraging fact. While inequality is rising within most countries, notably the high-income ones, global inequality of incomes, though huge, has been falling, particularly since 2000." http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/13603aa2-0185-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62.html#axzz48qeN6skc http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/13603aa2-0185-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e...