Wages definitely stagnated in 1980 (your chart shows $319 for both 1980 and 1998, for example, and it's visibly pretty flat for those two decades), and they've continued to be decoupled from productivity and corporate profits. "Trickle-down" turned out to be mostly pee.
The gap between productivity and wages has indeed grown, but that doesn't mean the same thing as Real Wages (adjusted for inflation) stagnating, as they have not done that.
Again, your chart shows two decades of stagnation, a small bump in the late 1990s, 15 more years of stagnation, and a bit of a recent runup (with obvious COVID outliers).
If you plot it with the Y-axis starting at 0 instead of 300, it'd looks even flatter. (See my link.)
Wages definitely stagnated in 1980 (your chart shows $319 for both 1980 and 1998, for example, and it's visibly pretty flat for those two decades), and they've continued to be decoupled from productivity and corporate profits. "Trickle-down" turned out to be mostly pee.
https://www.epi.org/blog/growing-inequalities-reflecting-gro...