Even the most genius person there is can do nothing when there are too many factors at play and most of them are factors that they can't control.
Inflation isn't as simple as just doing the right thing, sometime even inflation is needed.
We as the citizen can do nothing but just trying to beat inflation through finding asset that can outperform inflation and gives us profit on top of that.
That's why investing is more needed than ever.
Inflation has always been there since the beginning of current monetary system.
Yes, every year inflation always exists from previous years, and it will continue to move and it is difficult to stop. I think finding assets that are not affected by inflation is indeed difficult, because everything is affected by inflation, slowly or quickly, maybe only investment, but it depends on what investment we run. But gold is the best for investment because it can protect the assets you have, and its value tends to increase every year.