You're right, I was using it as a catch-all term which I really shouldn't do. What I was trying to get at was the trend of rising costs of living with stagnant

You're right, I was using it as a catch-all term which I really shouldn't do. What I was trying to get at was the trend of rising costs of living with stagnant wages which a lot of people have been seeing for the past couple decades. Need to come up with a good portmanteau for that :)