This is the problem with this type of reasoning. How much hindsight is sufficient? 2 years, 5 years, 10, 20, 50... Wages for the past 50 years have been trend

This is the problem with this type of reasoning. How much hindsight is sufficient? 2 years, 5 years, 10, 20, 50... Wages for the past 50 years have been trending down in terms of real purchasing power regardless of career/job. The number of jobs too if you average together a complete boom bust bailout cycle and normalize population growth.