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YesNope.
Because it is my response to your statement: "But increasing the minimum wage does exactly that. Unless wages above the minimum get an raise (provided that their productivity justifies their income)...."I don't see where mid or low wage workers were involved in that statement.
I agree that the "average wage" does not line up with the median worker...that is the point, but the point still is, the context was low/mid wage WORKERS, not average wages. You still insist on the higher average wage when it has nothing to do with the workers you cited in post 32.Did you attend public school? That is a real question, because I find it difficult to believe that someone doesn't understand something as basic as this.The median wage earner is not the typical wage earner. It's the wage earner where half of the population makes more and less than that person. Average is the method of selecting a "typical" value for data, meaning it takes into account ALL wage earners income, and divide that by the number of workers in the economy. The median income earner doesn't capture the typical income earner. That's really basic.
I didn't lay out anything. From the beginning, I have always mentioned average hourly earnings.
"But increasing the minimum wage does exactly that. Unless wages above the minimum get an raise (provided that their productivity justifies their income)...."
Again, you forgot what the point of the argument is, and you still insist on moving goalposts.
All it does is calculate an average wage that is skewed away from median workers.....AND FROM THE CONTEXT YOU CREATED. LOL!Calculating the average wages is not meant to reflect what most people are making. It reflects the typical. Basic arithmetic should be able to tell you why.
As per usual, your answer was a non-sequitur, it was not applicable to the workers under discussion.You're debating that post. Not me. You asked a question and I answered it. It's really not my fault you don't like the answer.
As I said before, you have failed to show that the workers in question, the context you created, have had their wages increase with productivity since 1980.You wanted to know how wages have tracked productivity gains, and I showed you. Again, it really isn't my fault you don't like the answer.
I like it fine that this failure is yours.