Good point.

hey they earned it after the amount of shit everyone gave them after WW2

We pay in Stalins over here.

And Alan Greenspan in a way

Mine just got smaller, NSFW was pretty good today.

Right, but if you're value hasn't gone down, then your salary should still be going up to account for inflation. If your salary is exactly the same as it was 20 years ago, then you're actually making less money now than you were 20 years ago because the same amount has less spending power. Seriously, this is middle school level shit.

I don't know why you're telling me what "inflation" means as if I don't know - I assume feigning a poor understanding of my point is simply a path to an easy "win" for you - but your first sentence is spoken like someone who does not understand inflation nor free market economics.

If everybody gets a salary increases to match inflation, inflation accelerates. It's an arms race. There's no magical fairy land where everyone lives a luxurious life. There are wealthy and poor and the difference is all relative.

As for "should still be going up", that's between an employee and his employer. If the employee can make himself more valuable by demanding a higher compensation, possibly in conjunction with increasing his ability to contribute to the employer's financial success, he will get a higher salary. If he cannot, because the employer does not agree that his contributions merit more pay, or because he can find another employee to do the work at the current salary, then the employee's salary doesn't increase.

People act as if salaries are determined by some universal law where everyone gets what they think they deserve. They don't. Salaries are negotiated and agreed upon. If you don't like what you're getting paid, look elsewhere or improve yourself. If you can't get anyone to pay you more, then you have failed to make yourself valuable enough for someone to pay you more.