The core claim of that comment is built upon guesswork, of a highly dubious sort at that: "It's not noted if these are nominal gains or inflation adjusted gain

The core claim of that comment is built upon guesswork, of a highly dubious sort at that: "It's not noted if these are nominal gains or inflation adjusted gains. Given the dip in 2009, I think these are real gains" Seriously? Seeing a tenfold gain in labour income in the graph, taking it to be in real terms is the more plausible option? Here's an inflation-adjusted graph, albeit not (I think) of quite the same data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Income_Distribution_1967-2003.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Income_Dist...