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AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money (pivot-to-ai.com)
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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

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[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

Please sir, may I have a scrap of context?

[-] Jiral@lemmy.org 6 points 1 day 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.

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