Some charts are very expressive of phenomena that occur over very long spans of time, making them more apparent to people whose horizon of expectation hardly extends past a year. It's a forest and trees problem.
The concentration of wealth in capitalist societies reoccurs with the Kondratiev wave until it is relieved by a more equitable distribution of wealth that comes with a resurgent economy based on new forms of production that technology makes possible.
In summary, Kondratiev observed in 1927 that capitalist societies have a uniform sine wave pattern of economic activity lasting between 45 and 60 years. There is a crisis peak of hyper inflation at its middle.
It was all downhill for us after 1980 as we headed into the inevitable global deflationary depression that announced itself with the financial crisis of 2008 and lasted well over a decade.
Economists don't pronounce it, but social indicators like food bank use, suicide rates and a fall off in longevity confirm it. The same experience occurred with what the public came to call The Long Depression that started with a financial crisis in 1873.
Economists denied it based on nominal economic performance numbers, but the name stuck in the consciousness of the people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depr…
We are currently transitioning to a new long wave of economic activity. Wages have been rising in Canada, breaking trend in 2018, but the residue of depression still weighs on large portions of the population who are fearful of ever gainfully participating in the economy.
The "Canada is broken" theme is an old story that is receding with the release of each new report of Canada's economic performance. 
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