The Real Token Economy Is Not About Spending Less. It Is About Thinking Smaller.

I saw a video today that made me laugh, then made me a bit worried. It was one of those jokes that is not really a joke because you can already see some company doing it six months from now. A manager was basically complaining because an employee was not spending enough AI tokens. Not enough tokens. As if tokens were steps on a fitness tracker. "You only burned 2,000 tokens today, Susan. Are you even working?" It sounds absurd, but we are not that far from it. Companies are already starting to m