For almost three decades now, politics worldwide has been defined by the legendary James Carville quote “It's the economy, stupid”. The phrase captured the idea that at the end of the day, people voted on how their country was performing economically i.e., on issues like inflation, unemployment, jobs etc. As the world rapidly globalised in the 1990s, the phrase became the default setting of global discourse; meaning elections were determined by how a nation was doing economically under the incumbent government. Even under non-democratic regimes, the economy was usually cited as the primary reason for upheaval, for example, unemployment and inflation were credited as the key reasons for the Arab Spring uprisings of the early 2010s.