Comment by bluefirebrand

> Fast food workers aren't service-economy workers, they're making burgers back there.

What exactly do you consider the "service industry" if you don't consider food services (like restaurants and fast food) as part of it?

I suspect we have very different ideas of what "service industry" means

> Also see https://www.epi.org/blog/wage-growth-since-1979-has-not-been..

Did you even read the whole thing?

```Dropping “wage stagnation” as a descriptive term for the full post-1979 period doesn’t mean we think the wage problem for American workers has been solved. Wage growth in the post-1979 period has been slow and unequal, largely as a result of intentional policy decisions. This policy-induced wage suppression has stifled growth in living standards and generated inequality. The last five years saw rapid and welcome progress reversing some of these trends—but it will take a long time to heal the previous damage, even if the post-2019 momentum can be sustained, which looks very unlikely at the moment.```

Admitting there is a problem but saying "it isn't stagnation" is just splitting hairs.

"Wage growth has been slow and unequal, but it isn't stagnation!"

"policy-induced wage suppression has stifled growth in living standards and generated inequality" there was wage suppression but it's not stagnation!

What a stupid article.