Aluminum's 99.9% price drop built a massive market; analogy for AI tokens
AccBalanced · x · 2026-08-25
Paul Bonnet draws an analogy between the 1850s aluminum price crash (dropping over 99.9% to build a massive materials market) and the future of AI tokens/compute costs, suggesting that falling prices will drive massive market expansion.
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