• GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    It says $4 million per hour. It’s from one of those places that uses dots instead of commas.

    But I do like to imagine someone in a really low CoL area like the Philippines wearing a tuxedo and laughing about how wealthy they are making $4/hr.

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      14 hours ago

      There are only two countries that use a currency named dollar and the comma as the decimal separator: Ecuador and Suriname. Which of them seem likely to have originated this English-language meme with typical US hourly rates?

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        6 hours ago

        Twitter, for all its faults, proved that a lot of people online with strong opinions about US politics are located in India, Pakistan, and southeast Asia. In my opinion one of these is the likely origin.

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        14 hours ago

        People in countries that use . instead of , still use $ without changing punctuation when referring to the dollar.