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I'm guessing quality of life has increased faster than wages.
By what scale? Medieval peasants only had to pay 10% in taxes and got sooooo much free time. Technology even today is still bad for us, but nature and free time? Come on, what's the point of having all these gadgets and what not if we don't have the time to use them, and they're all run by faceless corporations who make things as addictive and monetized as possible?
Productivity. That's what you want to compare to wages, and it has definitely increased faster than wages, so why aren't the workers being paid proportionately to their increased productivity?
I agree with the premise that late stage capitalism is a cancer, but I do have to say this particular scale of productivity/wage doesn't necessarily imply effort/wage directly. Tooling and technology has also improved productivity and in some cases has made jobs far less effort than they once were; arguably a good portion of profits were paid to who developed those solutions.
I don't have a better comparison to offer unfortunately, just a small blind spot in the data I think is worth mentioning.