When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
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RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724
When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").
Here:
👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens
👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)
@rysiek I know of one explanation how debt was created based on the priests giving out “sin forgiveness coupons” and those becoming tradeable.
I toot this without any particular reason
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@rysiek Someone needs to create an analogy to NFTs or some sh!tcoins this is bascially this just with a twist… ain't it?
@nemo it 100% is. But now you are *required* to use the shitcoins in your day-to-day job.
That's what cryptocurrency bubble failed to achieve.
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@nemo it 100% is. But now you are *required* to use the shitcoins in your day-to-day job.
That's what cryptocurrency bubble failed to achieve.
@rysiek I swear, Rysiek, those people are truly getting more and more on my nerves… they and their crony fellows and their corrupt friends… 🤢
Hardware is bought by them… so that we use their cloud…
They are all in the same boat… data is the new gold; let's kill E2EE and train our slop generators with everyone's messages…
Move fast and break their minds and societies…
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/spiralist-cult-ai-chatbot-1235463175/
Let's pay our workers in sh*t and force them to use it to pay…🤢🤢🤢
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What I'm saying is: unionize. ✊
@rysiek tempted to riff on this for a video
they've tried so hard to turn AI tokens into a commodity - tokens (AI) in the manner of tokens (crypto)
even tho tokens are incommensurable between models
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@rysiek tempted to riff on this for a video
they've tried so hard to turn AI tokens into a commodity - tokens (AI) in the manner of tokens (crypto)
even tho tokens are incommensurable between models
@davidgerard please go right ahead!
Every AI company wants to have their own private monopoly money they themselves issue.
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RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724
When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").
Here:
👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens
👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)
@rysiek Connect this with the idea of startup cities and we get banana republics all over again. Crazy times.
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@davidgerard please go right ahead!
Every AI company wants to have their own private monopoly money they themselves issue.
@rysiek you'd almost think sam altman was some sorta crypto guy
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@rysiek you'd almost think sam altman was some sorta crypto guy
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RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724
When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").
Here:
👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens
👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)
@rysiek This is like paying TV evangelists in prayers.
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RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724
When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").
Here:
👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens
👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)
@rysiek It's not that. It's much more sinister. They want to pay you in tokens AND expect you to use them for the work they pay you for. Therefore, part of your payment is required for you to work.
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If employees are paid in tokens that means employees are *paying* for tokens out of their own pockets.
No different than mining company town folks having to buy (or rent!) boots and work clothing from the company that employs them. At "special" rates, no doubt.
By the way this should tell you all you need to know what class "white collar" vibe coders and broader IT folks are.
Hint: no, you're not running the company town, you're renting your tools from your factory owner.
@rysiek Can you pay the bills with LLM tokens? -
@rysiek you'd almost think sam altman was some sorta crypto guy
@davidgerard Apropos of nothing. How is Worldcoin doing?
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@davidgerard please go right ahead!
Every AI company wants to have their own private monopoly money they themselves issue.
@rysiek @davidgerard Most of them have people involved who were in Crypto so it's not surprising, or ties to Elon and Thiel who dreamed of controlling the money supply back in the 90s. We're going to see them all take another crack at making ICOs a thing soon, I'm sure.
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RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724
When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").
Here:
👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens
👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)
Cryptocurrency and AI compute share the same goals; fobbing a fraud onto the gullible .
They're both fool's gold.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/07/the-guardian-view-on-cryptocurrencies-a-greater-fools-goldhttps://www.workers.org/2025/06/85955/
https://finbold.com/senior-economics-professor-says-bitcoin-is-fools-gold/
https://news.bitcoin.com/peter-schiff-argues-bitcoin-is-fools-gold-not-the-real-thing/
Company scrip as employee wages was outlawed nearly a century ago and for good reasons.
https://medium.com/financial-times/cryptocurrency-salaries-are-a-bad-flashback-to-company-scrip-392f4160bbdaIt often was disguised debt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
https://rethinkq.adp.com/artifact-coal-company-scrip-miners/
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@rysiek It's not that. It's much more sinister. They want to pay you in tokens AND expect you to use them for the work they pay you for. Therefore, part of your payment is required for you to work.
@mms I get into that a bit later in the thread
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If employees are paid in tokens that means employees are *paying* for tokens out of their own pockets.
No different than mining company town folks having to buy (or rent!) boots and work clothing from the company that employs them. At "special" rates, no doubt.
By the way this should tell you all you need to know what class "white collar" vibe coders and broader IT folks are.
Hint: no, you're not running the company town, you're renting your tools from your factory owner.
The only man who made money in the gold rush was the one who sold clothes and pickaxes.
Serfs, the lot of us.
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@rysiek currently tracking down Altman touting this idea of tokens as money in 2024 and again in 2025 on podcasts, lotta excerpts
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If employees are paid in tokens that means employees are *paying* for tokens out of their own pockets.
No different than mining company town folks having to buy (or rent!) boots and work clothing from the company that employs them. At "special" rates, no doubt.
By the way this should tell you all you need to know what class "white collar" vibe coders and broader IT folks are.
Hint: no, you're not running the company town, you're renting your tools from your factory owner.
@rysiek I am constantly thrown off by the "journalism" around the subject.
I can't remember if I have ever read about a "success AI story" that is not narrated by openAI or Anthropic. -
RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724
When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.
This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").
Here:
👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens
👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)
@rysiek Did Disney ever pay it's staff in Disney Dollars? Wouldn't surprise me. If they didn't then there's probably a law against it, only reason I could think might work. Or unions.
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@rysiek currently tracking down Altman touting this idea of tokens as money in 2024 and again in 2025 on podcasts, lotta excerpts
@davidgerard oh good. Looking forward to reading about it!
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