▲ 244 ▼ AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money (pivot-to-ai.com) submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems 36 comments fedilink hide all child comments I owe my SOUL․md to the company store https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLERkM2TJbw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260312-ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money - podcast time: 6 min 57 sec
[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 months ago (1 child) Please sir, may I have a scrap of context? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Jiral@lemmy.org 6 points 6 months ago Read the Business Insider article prominently linked in the source. They are creating the pretense of oh so scarce AI tokens critical for career success of programmers to push for a modern, more useless version of company scrip. Something outlawed back in the days following the industrial revolution for a reason. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 6 points 6 months ago Read the Business Insider article prominently linked in the source. They are creating the pretense of oh so scarce AI tokens critical for career success of programmers to push for a modern, more useless version of company scrip. Something outlawed back in the days following the industrial revolution for a reason. permalink fedilink source parent