It doesn’t matter what job site you look at: most disclose salaries and minimum wage in “real money” ($) alongside expenses being listed in actual money (rent, groceries, taxes, etc.). However can you make employers pay people in RAM sticks? That would mean every real world expense is priced in TB, GB or MB.
Like this: x1 12GB per hour, you get 8 of them for a day equating to 96GB, work for 5 days straight ending up with 480GB (x40 RAM sticks) a week equal to a salary of 23.04TB per annum. What would it be like if people were paid in RAM sticks (“scrap metal”)? Are employers able to do that without having to deduct taxes?
I mean in short, no paying in non currency is still taxed. Same problem that’s mostly glossed over when say you win a new car on a gameshow or similar, and why in reality the gameshows offer you cash value for the car instead. (because a broke ass family winning a top of the line car that they could never afford, still has to pay taxes on the prize… that they also could never afford). and yeah paying in something that is going up in price, means the company has to budget with either spending all of your sallary up front to buy what they are going to pay you massively up front… or know that they don’t actually know what they are going to pay you, then add in a concept like “at will employment” obviously you are motivated to quit or renegotiate if the price crashes, and they need to fire you or re-negotiate if the price skyrockets.
On top of course of limited goods, because the company buying them will drive the price up further.