Or, and this may just be a crazy thing to think, unemployment is at historic lows so why aren't real wages rising is a valid question to be asking and explaining.

Maybe jobs are being created at the bottom. That reduces both unemployment and the average wage.

Exciting new-economy opportunities, like delivering for Doordash or recharging Bird scooters, pay very poorly.

There was plenty of this a few years ago. It's been pretty constant for the last decade at least.

Wages are most certainly not a 'tangential issue'.