People also need to pay taxes on their earnings, they need to eat, sleep and drink, they need to pay bills and get clothes... No one but a complete moron will spend their month of work to buy a phone (!) and stay without those initially mentioned things. Weird metrics to use to write this article.
Where you axx get all this shady information from? In Vietnam i do damn known is a much of corruption country where inflation is increasing, people had to buy only via installment purchase.
Stop spreading bulls!t or close this entire website, that's enough of this.
In the US and much of Europe, the average worker only needs a few days of work to afford an iPhone 17 Pro, whilst Apple's latest flagship can cost several months of salary in other regions – a global divide highlighted by the iPhone Affordability Index.