$100k not as sweet a deal as it used to be?

Makes me wonder what I'm striving for:

http://www.bankrate.com/nltrack/news/pf/20081215-inflation-shrinks-income-a1.asp

Personally, I think the article's author needs to take a look at people closer to the median salary instead of looking so far out into the standard deviations. Lots of people out there would still kill to make $100k, even if it doesn't go as far as it used to.

edited because median != medium. Stoopid typos