Right, rising wages is what most people demand of politicians.

But, there's two ways to get more of what you want:

1) rising wages

2) lowering costs.

#1 -> it would be nice but you can only squeeze so much blood from a turnip.

#2 has gotten far too little attention and has a lot of potential to do good, if we start pursuing it in a way that increases overall prosperity, not decreasing propsperity