Hot take: it’s not just “me too! Valuation pls”. Tokens are fine grained billable attribute that lets you add micro transactions to your service. Not in all c

Hot take: it’s not just “me too! Valuation pls”. Tokens are fine grained billable attribute that lets you add micro transactions to your service. Not in all cases, but in many we exist in a complicated world of enshitifcation + inflation. Inflation means you need to somehow make more money. You can either: raise prices (unpopular), make your product cheaper (unpopular) or add new features and rise the price on the basis of “new value!”. You see major organisations doing this: same product, but now with ai! …and it’s more expensive. Or it’s a mandatory bundle. Or it’s “premium”. Long storm short, a lot of companies see the way that cloud providers do billing (usage based billing, no caps, you get the bill after using it) as the ideal end state. Token based billing moves towards that world; which isn’t just “profit!” …it’s companies trying to deal with the reality of a complicated market place that will punish them for raising prices. …and it is bad. I’m just saying that it’s kind of naive to think so many companies are doing this just as a “me tooooo!”. Come on; even if you’re hunting a funding round, the people running these companies are (mostly) not complete idiots. No one is adding AI features because it’s fun, or they’re bored. … …ok, there are some idiots. Most people have a bigger vision for these features than just annoying their users.