The part nobody really prepares you for:

Inflation almost never hits reverse.
That $4 sandwich eventually becomes $8, and it rarely drops back down.
That Rent that rises from $1,200 to $1,900 rarely goes back to $1,200.
The only reliable way to keep up is to increase your income.
Yet every time workers demand better pay, they’re told it’ll damage the economy.
The real question is:
Whose economy are they protecting?