The new company scrip.
Still illegal.
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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The US is feudal now. There are no laws except the whim of the owning class.
yet far more useless than company scrip
At least you could buy food with company scrip.
Seems like they just have excess capacity and need some way to use it
"Don't take wooden nickels"
Steinbeck
call me back when my landlord decides AI tokens are acceptable for rent
It's time to start demanding we be paid our wages in gold fucking nuggets.
Any employee willing to be paid by token or crypto gets what they deserve. The only reason these companies can get away with this crap is because the proletariat are allowing it.
You need a job, and you want it to be exciting; that’s understandable. Maybe you’re trying to break into the industry. Yes, it’s tough. People will tell you that you’ve got to pay your dues or some other “toe the line” bullshit.
People need to realize that companies are not friends, they are a means to an end. And you are their means to an end. They will use you, just like you will use them. If they want you to work pong hours for as little pay as they can get away with, walk away. There are other jobs out there. They may not be glamorous, but they are out there.
You know I just checked, and my landlord doesn’t take AI tokens.
How big is the token? If its heavy enough we could use it to beat the landlords to death
You load 16 gigs, and what do you get? Sudo apt update && apt upgrade, Admin dont you call on me, cause I can't compute, I owe my soul to the LLM.
Omg this needs to be turned into a proper cover/parody of the original song. Would be amazing and popular i am sure.
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If only WorldCom had thought of paying employees in long distance minutes (they got for free at work), they'd still be around today, under theory that employees would still have worked there.
A plot point in Terry Pratchett's book Going Postal was postage stamps being used as currency, because they were backed by the postal system, which was seen as trustworthy.
This is a similar line of thinking, but far more delusional, as an AI company is nowhere near as trusted as the postal service.
US Forever stamps are inflation-proof, too.
AI tokens, I'm not so sure.
Except these stamps can't even be handed over to someone else so you can't even pay for anything with them. So the delusion is that you're going to want to spend a significant part of your income on LM tokens no matter what.
Because AI companies are running out of money?
No one ever pays me in gum :/
??????? That’s not how getting paid works??????????
The Business Insider article this article references makes a big stretch to try to frame it as compensation:
In other words, access to AI may soon matter as much as access to a fat salary and juicy equity awards. As a coder in the AI era, if you don't have access to massive compute, you might end up producing far less software than your colleagues, threatening your career prospects.
But what they're talking about is pretty clearly a business expense and not payment, because it's something they only get to use at work in order to do their job.
Can't pay 'em if you got no revenue
Funny idea, but never going to happen, not legal.
Yet.