The cost of living will continue to increase because the value of money continues to decrease or inflation,
And aside from death and taxes, there should be an addition of what's permanent in this world and that's inflation.
while it is increasingly difficult for us to find additional income, competition is getting tougher and the government is not pro-poor are factors that make the economy easy to control.
I wouldn't say in general that it is the government that's not pro poor/citizens. It depends to the country and type of government that they have but not all governments aren't like that.
I haven't been into many places but I've read that there are governments that are pro its people but it just so happen that in terms of politics, many will disagree.