afterlos --- you may know this - your graph proves the point I have been making. The working classes real income is being destroyed by inflation and taxes. WE requre assets that outpace inflation and avoid taxes to improve... Hence most of the real income improvement goes to the top .05% who can tax plan and invest in real estate and fast growing business. Most of the rest are getting eaten alive by govt taxes and inflation... (by crony design). Don't even get me started on what govt back loans has done to the cost of college.