It’s cool that most American jobs tend to have a mediocre pay raise that barely keeps up with inflation. Couple that with increasing accelerated cost of everything multiple times (most recent big jumps, Pandemic, end-of-pandemic-fake-price-hike-for-alleged-still-supply-chain-disruptions-moneygrab, runaway inflation from Mango Mussolini 1.0, now all the stuff from Mango 2.0, insurance rate jumps due to climate change) and even a tiny 6% pay raise is still a pay cut (if one is lucky to even see a pay rase.)