‘But guys… the stock market is at a record high. Don’t you care?’

I can honestly say that I was far better off a decade ago, despite making half the salary I currently do.

I get the same sense of a K shaped recovery in the UK. Feels like society is splitting in half

It is because of inflation and salaries not keeping up with it.

In before some dumbass tries to link the real wages/earnings graph from the St. Louis Fed. You're wrong. Go look at your made up graphs that reflect nothing somewhere else.