Wages have never kept up with inflation.Back in the 50’s and 60’s a man could support a family with his salary/salt money but today it takes 2 working parents to support a family because of inflation.The middle class in America is vanishing because of this.
It's not inflation that is causing this. It's the often-unrealistic expectations that come with a rising standard of living.
If you need any evidence of that, just go back to the 1950s and 1960s and see what constituted a middle-class standard of living back then. You don't think a family could survive on one income today if they had the same standard of living that Americans had 50-60 years ago?