@george__ technology work is anti inflationary in nature. I don't totally understand why; I asked some fancy finanical friend who does this stuff for a living.
You were going into tech right? Just get in and keep climbing, you'll beat inflation. Despite the fact that
@Mad Mike educated me on how our salaries haven't gone up vs the 90s, it's still ridiculously high compared to standard of living and average two income salary, and only going up right now. Colleague of mine recently jumped from $80k to $135k when I told him about the trend and he told his manager.
Worry about the system after. Putting your hopes into the government doesnt really do ****, they can try balancing all they want but there will always be losers.
We already printed 6 billion I think, so damage is done. Up to us indnviduals to adapt.
Edit: if you aren't a lazy mofo like me, you can go straight into consulting. It's certain that the technical debt piled around world wide is gonna need fixing, present yourself as Jesus to these companies.