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tireddoomguard OP t1_j6ef3wn wrote

We actually saw posts in reddit about what you can get with 100 dollars in US and we wanted to share our own kind of fucked up economy here

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No_Cabinet_3791 t1_j6hcmoh wrote

thank you for raising awareness

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doctorsilvana t1_j6irpo5 wrote

For more awareness because this seems an amazing platform to share these facts, I will copy paste a comment of mine hoping it gives more context and info:

Well to be honest that wasn't a good representation. For instance, a 60 dollar boardgame if imported from amazon or some other website costs 20 million tomans or 200 rials which is almost 4 times an average salary.

Other examples, a video game if bought digitally costs almost a month's salary. Laptops and phones are expensive, Iphone 14 is sold at a price over 1700 dollars and it can't even support Iranian sim cards due the ban on luxury items. A mediocre second hand laptop with core i3 and some basic functions is sold as almost an average month's salary.

I could say meat in Iran is expensive and it could be the same in america, but a months salary in Iran is kinda lower or equal to a months rent in average parts of the big cities. Imagine that family of 3, would need to pay house bills, pay for food, school, laptop for the student (in the covid phones and laptop where a must and they were super expensive due to the Rial to Dollar exchange in imports), etc and they are left with nothing but loans and loans from banks.

The loans are an awful thing as well, imagine you have to pay almost 20% or even higher rate, more money to the bank for the loans they give. So basically the economy is in shambles and import goods are as high a months salary.

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