There are always going to be winners and losers in the system under which we operate.
Some people will always be doing better than you while some people will always be people doing worse than you.
Right or wrong, that’s a feature, not a bug.
Most of the time it could take years, decades or even generations to separate the winners from the losers in the economy.
In the housing market, it happened in the blink of an eye, first with housing price gains, then with the swift increase in mortgage rates.
If you owned a home before 2020 or so you should be sitting on a nice pile of equity. And if you took out a mortgage or were able to refinance when mortgage rates were at generational lows, you locked in one of the best inflation hedges imaginable.