This is uh insane? Getting AI tokens is not a "benefit" or something. It's like saying to a coal miner "hey your salary is now 40% paid in pickaxes." It's entirely useless for doing anything outside your actual job.
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Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation
(www.businessinsider.com)
1830: company scrip for the company store
2030: company tokens for the company script
Let’s just skip ahead to the movie where Justin Timberlake has time in his arm
INTRODUCING MY NEW DIGITAL CURRENCY, COMPUTOKEN, THE WORLD'S FIRST AI COMPUTE BACKED CRYPTOCURRENCY!
Aaaaand it's gone
This has been a thing in silicon valley for awhile. It reduces your total compensation since it's factored in.
is he the guy? the one in the thumbnail who is proposing this?
straight into a woodchipper tbh
Work hard and you'll be rewarded with more spins on the company slot machine that never actually pays out anything of value!
Where's my money 
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