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> "I currently in x and get paid in USD"

is currently a great place to be



For now.

I think this will lead to the end of the petrodollar eventually. The world won't put up with it forever.


Unlikely in the foreseeable term, not because the world loves dollars, but because there are few good alternatives. Euros are probably the best alternative, but studies have suggested that the US is a better place for holding assets. See, for example, https://www.nber.org/digest/apr20/why-euro-hasnt-become-inte...

Money keeps flowing into the US because it is perceived as safer.


What will we use.... Euros? Renmenbi? Lol


China proposed using SDRs before.



... for x != USA.




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