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by globalreset 1195 days ago
> You having to pay tax in USD means you're going to prefer holding USD and being paid in USD as well.

Huge part of the world have to pay taxes in their local currencies and yet prefers storing savings in USD.

> Anything else would be strictly inferior, as now you have to worry about doing conversions all the time.

You weight it against other pros and cons. Even US billionairs do not store their savings in USD cash, and don't seem to mind "conversions all the time".