In the hands of a populist, iPhone is not a mobile phone but a testimony about the state of the nation

Every government needs some measure of success. Some track real wages, others the poverty rate or housing affordability. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has now come up with a much simpler method: just call your cousin.
At the Slovak Industry and Transportation Gala on November 9 at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Bratislava, Fico told business leaders how his cousin came to see him and complained that he couldn’t buy an iPhone for 1,600 euros at the store because it was sold out. The prime minister concluded from this that we should stop talking about “the state of this country” and acknowledge that an awful lot has been achieved. An anti-corruption activist immediately dubbed it the “Prime Minister’s Cousin’s iPhone Index.” The fewer phones in stock, the greater the prosperity. Celý článek zde

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