"If you don't believe me why don't you research the issue?"
What an ABSURD thing to say! Are you a listbot? Am I talking to a program rather than a person...because a cognitive human adult should reasonably be able to comprehend that I *already* researched the issue in order to first post the official U.S. government data showing wages are up (message #50, this thread) as well as listed examples of increases in personal wealth nationally (e.g. air conditioning in 98% of Southern homes now versus 1959, more cars per household, more Americans now own their own homes than back then, more Americans invest in the stock market, those stock market portfolios are larger now than then, etc.).
But all of a sudden I'm starting to have the opinion that I'm talking to last-word-itus software that simply tries to be annoying for as long as any humans will dare to post to it...