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I thought it was the influx of new money printed, which we've done in the form of Quantitative Easing, multiple bail outs, etc.

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Which mostly trickles up.

It didn’t even need to trickle up, it was exclusively handed out to the top on the assumption of “trickle down economy” being a real thing.

You print more money because you have to give out more money, whether if it's in the form of handouts or in the form of extra wages.

Employers aren't printing up more money. Yes, labor costs going up impact profits but what about labor costs of management? That has gone up significantly:

"From 1978 to 2021, CEO pay based on realized compensation grew by 1,460%, far outstripping S&P stock market growth (1,063%) and top 0.1% earnings growth (which was 385% between 1978 and 2020, according to the latest data available). In contrast, compensation of the typical worker grew by just 18.1% from 1978 to 2021"

Source: https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2021/#:~:text=Fro....

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