Along these lines, here's a graph from the Federal Reserve's data service which plots median household income in contrast to GDP per household over time. https

Along these lines, here's a graph from the Federal Reserve's data service which plots median household income in contrast to GDP per household over time. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=bOfK https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=bOfK Note the increasing spread between GDP/household and median income. That's the US's entire socioeconomic problem--from rising consumer debt levels, rising deaths of despair, and the rise of reactionary politics--shown in one chart. The median person is falling behind.