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I’m thinking that collapsing dollar would be bad for all of us instead of rapid de-dollarization we need to create another alternative to end dollar hegemony. Not a economist but still the dollar will be relevant currency for world trade and not changing any soon.
Counterpoint: Rapid crash of the dollar would give me a small window of time to import lots of treats until they raise the prices
You can do this with volatile currencies such as Argentian Peso, Turkish Lira, Brazilian real etc etc
But that's what BRICS is working on. Not going to say that I have any semblance of economic knowledge, but rapid dedollarization would mean countries would likely be pushed to agree to trade using local currency of respective countries.
Short term, it'll be hard, uphill struggle. Long-term though? It'd be amazing for the Global South.
So far this trend is observable through China and Russia:
https://cepa.org/comprehensive-reports/going-steady-china-and-russias-economic-ties-are-deeper-than-washington-thinks/
I think I might've read that other countries are warming up to do the same, but I don't know.