While the domestic left has been making fun of the price cap for days on the back of the chicken and thus on those for whom this is the main meat dish, Tamás Csillag, the young politician of Momentum, who wants to represent Hungarians abroad, showed his social sensibility.

The young politician posted on Facebook about why the iPhone is so expensive in Hungary. It is worth noting that the chairman of the party, András Fekete-Győr, could not tell the price of milk in the Mandiner interview. The new post reinforces the belief that Momentum sees Hungary's reality and actual socio-economic challenges less.

Let's remember the time when Hungarian businesses that were finally starting to grow would have started to be listed and boycotted, based on perceived political reasons, imagining an ideal market economy where the baker does not bake bread for customers who do not agree with him politically.

Let's both die of hunger, don't we, just so we don't touch a forint that has been touched by a conservative hand, writes the Mandiner.  The base price of the flagship phone in Hungary is approx. HUF 425,000. According to KSH data, this year's average wages are HUF 431,300 gross and HUF 286,300 net. This means that an average Hungarian has to work about 30 days for a 128 GB iPhone 13 Pro, without spending anything else (and I didn't even talk about the difference between the average and median wages...) Not only in absolute terms, the iPhone is one of the most expensive in our country, but even compared to average wages, the new apple phone is the most unattainable for the average Hungarian worker - the politician laments the fact that the HUF 431,300 According to him, the circling telephone is inaccessible to the average Hungarian worker.

It is not clear why Csillag chose a luxury product manufactured by a company called Apple as the poverty threshold, because anyone can buy a phone for a fraction of the price of this product.

According to him, the poor Hungarian worker cannot buy because the country is a German assembly plant and it is not possible to attract high value-added sectors to Hungary - Csillag lists thoughtless platitudes, many times disproved with data, for which he cannot be blamed, and he could even be an academic economist.

the entire Magyar Nemzet article here

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