The Great Stagnation in the UK. Russ Roberts

Rise in real earnings % 1978-2008 (male full-time)
Medical practitioners	153
Judges, barristers, solicitors	114
Secondary school teachers	67
Quantity surveyors	65
Accountants	60
Welfare/social workers	60
Median (mid-point of sample)	57
Electrical and electronic engineers	55
Bricklayers	37
Architects; town planners	36
Mechanical engineers	34
Skilled motor mechanics	34
Carpenters and joiners	30
Plasterers	30
Toolmakers/toolfitters	21
Heavy goods vehicle drivers	19
Bus and coach drivers	11
Sheet metal workers	8
Bakers	-1
Packers, bottlers, fillers, canners	-3
Fork lift truck drivers	-5

So the median (worker? occupation?) grew a measly 57 percent in real terms over 30 years. That’s 2% per year. That’s a crisis? That requires radically transforming society? They’re even crazier across the pond than we are here.

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Fuente: Francisco Capella.