"Tokens will become money": one Big Mac would cost 300K tokens
darkgaro · x · 2026-09-21
When AI and robotics take a significant share of the economy, tokens won't just cost money — they'll become money. The author breaks down a Big Mac as 300K tokens: 4K for order-taking AI, 20K for cooking robots, 40K for transport, 50K for AI-run cattle farming, 186K across the rest of the supply chain. If AI powers the entire chain, why convert tokens to money at all?
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