Real wage growth has been negative in the US for the past decades. Stability and growth was there for us, but it wasn't there for the tens of millions in the precariate who were promised stability in the form of a substantial improvement to the welfare net and didn't get it.
From the perspective of tens, if not a hundred million, what that meant is continued decline, increased instability and broken promises, because that's the long term trend they're living and the one they were promised would continue.
