Your company is not your buddy. All these talks about cost of living adjustment is nothing but beautiful horse shit to sugarcoat the truth (below).

You’re essentially a tool they try to buy as cheap as possible.

Your job is to sell yourself as high as you can.

The good news is that both you and your company have freedom to choose and compete with other entities.

So the only way for you to fix motivation is not talking it through, but rather to learn winning in this free market game.