Yeah, that graph is hugely misleading. I think that most of the population would glance at it and assume that wages had caught up with the last few years of price rises.

Data: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday, and you are not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, ‘Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays’?

Worf: No. No, man. Sh*t, no, man. I believe you’d get your ass kicked sayin’ something like that, man.

“Ugly bags of mostly water”, S1E18 TNG, Home Soil

Thank you for posting. This cuts right to the heart of the issue.