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Tiktok influencer income was never going to solve any economic problems in a meaningful way.

No, but it went in the right direction. Unlike everything else with the economy as of late (if you don't have the spare money to gamble in stocks.

Wage growth has exceeded inflation in the USA for the whole of 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i...

Real wages in all income brackets are at an all-time high (apart from a short blip during the pandemic), and overall have surged since the start of the pandemic. See e.g. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employed-full-tim....

Real wages but not buying power. And that ignores all the unemployment rate rising (U-3 and U-6). If you had a job and kept it in 2024, you're only slightly better off than 2023 and probably slightly worse than 2022.

If you don't been devastating. Now watch it go down in 2025 and unemployment get worse for Americans as well.

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