The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins is analogous to gold miners expending resources to add gold to circulation.
Except instead of swinging pickaxes and getting covered in actual mud, these digital "gold miners" are just sweating over their GPU temperatures and electricity bills. 🤣 It’s the only kind of "resource expenditure" where the biggest physical danger is tripping over an ethernet cable while reaching for a snack! ⚡️