<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragonelite</author><text>But paychecks have no been outrunning inflation or follow productivity increase at least here in western Europe.&lt;p&gt;My paychecks if lucky grows like 2~3% but my house value rises with like 10~18% so do my taxes I need to pay for owning a house.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beebmam</author><text>Paychecks are rising in the US, certainly. Just not very equally.</text></item><item><author>scarmig</author><text>&amp;gt; He has promised Chinese a better life. Growing paychecks aside, the Chinese are not living it.&lt;p&gt;I mean... growing paychecks instead of stagnation would do a whole lot to arrest the instability that Western liberal democracies are experiencing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order</title><url>https://scholars-stage.org/xi-jinpings-war-on-spontaneous-order/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>strict9</author><text>Securities, property, crypto and other related assets are the real rising stars.&lt;p&gt;The rise of paychecks against that backdrop is very small. In the context of everything else that&amp;#x27;s increasing in price, it feels like a wash.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beebmam</author><text>Paychecks are rising in the US, certainly. Just not very equally.</text></item><item><author>scarmig</author><text>&amp;gt; He has promised Chinese a better life. Growing paychecks aside, the Chinese are not living it.&lt;p&gt;I mean... growing paychecks instead of stagnation would do a whole lot to arrest the instability that Western liberal democracies are experiencing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order</title><url>https://scholars-stage.org/xi-jinpings-war-on-spontaneous-order/</url></story>