To provide an alternative viewpoint:

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-us-history-course-and-exam-description.pdf

The irony is that western free nations owe their safety to America’s military, and by extension this sacrifice of the American people, if you follow the post’s logic

Would also be interesting to see this series with a “net income” type of divisor (as opposed to “revenue” for the sake of analogy) to adjust for differences in CoL

Literally just pay attention to the real wages component of the same BLS release CPI is included in