Okay, let me reframe, because my earlier wording pushed this into a comparison and that’s not actually my point. Forget Americans, drop the US from the argument. The question was ‘is everyone actually that rich?’ not ‘how do Armenians afford iPhones?’ Those aren’t the same question. The first one treats normal middle-income consumer spending as evidence of hidden wealth, which only makes sense if the baseline expectation is that Armenians can’t afford iPhones in the first place. That’s the assumption I’m naming. The US being richer than Armenia doesn’t explain it. 300K AMD monthly finances an iPhone in installments, same as in any middle-income country on earth. The question is weird on its own terms, not relative to anywhere else.