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You guys need to unionize and fight for raises that exceed the inflation rate. Here in Brazil, we have this in almost every type of labor.
Five years ago, the right-wing began dismantling the unions' monetization system in an attempt to break them, and they also raised the retirement age. However, the unions are still doing their job, and every year we receive a raise above inflation.
The current left-wing government has already said that they are working to recover a monetization system for unions. They are studying a way to implement this in a manner that will make it difficult for a future government to repeal.
USAians are overall too dumb to figure all this out
You seem to be forgetting the 10 other reasons why relative wages are falling behind aside from ignorance
In many places they wouldn't be falling behind if dirt poor people weren't frothy-mouthed cheering for trust fund inheritor babies who only pay attention to hot escorts and dad's hedge fund lawyers.
The cult of personality that adheres to the philosophy of being "self-made" doesn't help, but anti-union practices by the US' ruling class have been exercised since the industrial revolution, and meanwhile government has hardly ever stepped in to regulate or break monopolies.