Nobody seems to be commenting on "the standard of living has gone up for nearly all Americans". A basket-of-goods analysis seems a lot more interesting than foc

Nobody seems to be commenting on "the standard of living has gone up for nearly all Americans". A basket-of-goods analysis seems a lot more interesting than focussing on income or wealth statistics. I'm in favor of large-scale redistribution but before we do that we need better metrics of who is in need.