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Lifestyle inflation

Lifestyle inflation is the silent trap where your spending rises alongside your income, so a doubled salary produces no additional security or freedom—just higher fixed costs that pin you in place. It happens because we adapt to comfort quickly and benchmark our spending to our peers rather than to our actual values, making it invisible until it's already structured your life.

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