Now I finally understand why Ye Wenjie pressed the button to call the Trisolarans.

The current environment is too bad—because of the AI revolution, people are facing unemployment. As a result, they go home with their compensation, and when they want to spend it, all hardware products have gone up in price due to AI demand. And to get back into the workforce, you have to spend more money to buy tokens to use AI—so you get trapped in an ever-deepening cycle of getting poorer and poorer.