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"How much I paid to eat kebab every year", in Turkey with the 4th highest inflation in the world (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Switzerland:

2015: 10.50$
2024: 12$

How do people in Turkey survive? Did everyone buy something instead of save it on a bank account? Or did they transfer the money to another country or just buy foreign currency? How can the economy handle this? Sry I am spoiled..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

They took some shitty Chinese loans

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

In the US at least, the vast majority of people live paycheck-to-paycheck, so as long as wages rise with prices inflation doesn't affect most people. Wages rise with prices, right? Right?