Comment by jerf
18 hours ago
It's also kind of interesting that they don't think they can do what an economy would normally do in this situation, which is raise prices until supply matches. Shortages generally imply mispricing.
There's a lot of angles you take from that as a starting point and I'm not confident that I fully understand it, so I'll leave it to the reader.
the sales pitch is that you can keep throwing more and more tokens at a problem to solve it.
if the prices dont keep going down, the pitch falls apart, that you need a specialist to come in and make it work