It means you'll be poorer because your wage will go up far less than the price of things. Like a gallon of a gas and a big mac meal. Look at price of gas per gallong.
$1 dollar during Clinton, $2 dollar during Bush, $3 dollar during Trump, almost $6 during Biden. It won't take much for gas to hit $10 and i'm sure it will happen sooner than later.
This effect has been going on strong since the late 70s with congressional free trade deals, other economic arrangements where labor is offshored, and caps to minimum wage, union busting, and other methods to wrestle away bargaining/economic power away from the average worker and into the hands of shareholders, CEOs and the wealthy.
It began the minute Nixon took us off the gold standard, which previously forced government to live within a budget.
And inflation is a tax, a tax created by the government so they can spend spend spend...and print print print.
It is so unsustainable, even Saudi Arabia has abandoned trading in dollars for their oil.
They'll somehow manage to hold the markets together until the holidays, after all; it's an election year.
Paper markets are also inflated, as investors are chasing yields; trying to keep up with the inflation.
While wages have not kept pace with the inflation rate, irresponsible government spending is at the root of the current issue.
Reverting back to the OP topic, I would personally not be sleeping very well; if I had a load of cash tied up in the "stock market".
Seriously, the average consumer right now is better off buying a years worth of food ahead of time; as in a year it will cost 20% more.
And I guarantee the stock market will not be going up 20% in 12 months.
Silver right now is great option, still very undervalued; and affordable for almost everyone.
Gold has gone up b/c all the BRICS nations are gobbling it up, to back their own currency; like we used to.
As the US dollar is now only backed by the US military, and the Federal Reserve is not Federal(private)and has zero reserves.
Even FICA is out of money, when a bank fails; they just print it over with greenbacks.