recall that muse *must absolutely work* for meta. they are burning trainloads of money on personal VPS for everyone with a zillion free tokens. in the shareholder call transcript, the investors are asking questions like "so given this total reorientation of everything about muse... how can that be profitable." the only way muse can work is if it becomes incredibly way more profitable or way less expensive. the business model they discuss is "it's mostly free for everyone, we just take a cut of transactions through muse and also ads." but it's very hard to condition a model to both be your undying devoted servant and also refuse when you say "don't use meta's payment thing, just pay normal, less fees," so way more profitable doesn't seem very likely.

and so this incredibly wasteful process that *already doesn't work at all* and its not working compounds into it being fractally wasteful. that is the thing that needs to become 10x cheaper to run.

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