18:11The $15,000 AI Bill. Your $20 Subscription is a DELUSION
The Infographics Show takes one uncomfortable number and builds an entire economic argument on top of it. A serious Claude Code power user chews through roughly 10 billion tokens a year, and at standard API rates that workload costs about $15,000. The same person on a flat rate Max subscription pays around $1,200. The missing $13,800 is a 92% subsidy, and it is not magic, it is venture capital deliberately eating losses to get a generation hooked before the price tags change.

