What do you hold as baseline? Baked in to your reply is a theme of prices go up over time (inflation). To take a concrete example: has a person employed to stoc

What do you hold as baseline? Baked in to your reply is a theme of prices go up over time (inflation). To take a concrete example: has a person employed to stock shelves at a store meaningfully increased their productivity in the last 25 years? What if, instead of increasing wages to match "cost of living", we made it easier for people to change jobs or move to an area with a more favorable cost/quality of life ratio?