somebody must have said to refer to energy usage as electrons, because even lay people know energy is scarce, valuable, and crucial to human life/comfort while also having impacts on the environment if generated from certain sources.

energy usage has baggage. dad yelling about the power bill, "don't waste energy!" etc

using "electrons" is abstracted, because electrons are matter and matter can't be lost, really, right? so the supply must be infinite.

if he just said "our business model and heuristic for progress is converting large amounts of energy into faked videos of celebrities and chatbots for lonely people", the music would stop.