Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said that tokens are now a recruiting tool (and he wants to give engineers half their salary in tokens):
They're going to make a few hundred thousand dollars a year, their base pay," said Huang of engineers. "I'm going to give them probably half of that on top of it as tokens so that they could be amplified 10X. Of course, we would."
"It is now one of the recruiting tools in Silicon Valley: How many tokens comes along with my job?" Huang added. "And the reason for that is very clear, because every engineer that has access to tokens will be more productive.
But it's not like we actually want tokens. We want money. Tokens are incidental. What I DO care about is not having enough tokens to meet demand. And employers are demanding ALL THE TOKENS. Regardless of my salary, if an employer expects me to use AI but can't afford to give me the tokens to use it effectively, is that a place that I would want to work? The way I see it, tokens are not an incentive, they are fundamental to modern work. You have a computer, an internet connection, and a shit load of tokens to burn.