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If Turkey is anything like eastern Europe, I’d be pretty confident that the people buying Apple stuff don’t have their salaries or bank accounts denominated in Lira.

For example in Ukraine anything that matters is priced in USD

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Even wages?

In countries where you can’t trust the local currency, this is normal, yeah. You wouldn’t want your work suddenly devalued by 15%

Especially wages. At least for the industries where workers are in a position to demand.

A tech job that offer in local currency gets laughed out of the room around here.

Are people using btc because of the threat from Russia?

What? You’re gonna need to expand on that.

Who said anything about btc?!

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