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by shrimpx 1256 days ago
The point about currency seems like a red herring, since it can be easily converted into USD, etc., but insisting on paying people salaries based on averages in their current location is pretty inflexible and remote-unfriendly IMO.

People may move around and have financial obligations in multiple countries. E.g., if you have a mortgage and school loans in the US, and you want to live in Armenia for 1 year, your employer insisting that you take a 80% paycut due to "Armenian rates" is pretty ignorant and inflexible.

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There were 2 problems:

1/ I was on a tourist visa. I did not have a bank account that could accept pesos.

2/ if I had an arg account, the gov limits how much can be sold for usd. [0]

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2019/10/28/argentinas-...