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Four bucks per hour laughing at nineteen bucks an hour?
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.
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?
People in countries that use . instead of , still use $ without changing punctuation when referring to the dollar.
You know that various countries have their own currencies? Why would they refer to the dollar instead?
Good lord. Because the dollar exists, and people in other countries are free to reference it without changing their numerical punctuation standards. Other languages have their own spellings for America too, and in their own alphabets. They don't have to switch things up for us.
Don't worry, the American dollar won't be the de facto global currency much longer, so this kind of thing will just fade away. Of course, that means we will have to learn new systems.
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.