This stark visualization proves it: You should be making a lot more money
See what your paycheck could look like if wages weren’t stuck in the ’70s.
It looks like some abstract museum installation. Yellow dots dangle in the air between a plywood frame, as if we’re getting a glimpse into Yayoi Kusama’s closet. But what you’re really seeing is a depiction of hard data: nearly half a century of income inequality that has served the top 1% of Americans, and pretty much nobody else.