The assertion that "better wages are coming" is something between an article of faith and a stalling tactic. Evidence from advanced economies shows the opposite — that the "phillips curve" is broken. Financialization likely has a part in the new normal dysfunction where wages serve now merely as an ante in an economy run to satiate the greed of the owners of capital. So too does the difficulty of establishing the value of things in the digital economy. When information and machined goods produced by robots or 3d printing can be generated ad infinitum without labour and at virtually zero marginal cost, the only way to establish value is arbitrarily through the operation of quasi monopolies, which is what we are seeing. I am amazed that the writer didn't pull out the heavy artillery of clichés and start talking about "labour shortages." As if.