Comment by the-rc

It wasn't that there was a crunch — that had always existed. There just wasn't all the tooling to implement anything like flex. At least this video was made after "buying Borg quota" was a normal thing. Before it, you had to "buy" regular machines and donate/assimilate them into Borg. Then after X days you'd receive your quota, minus a Borg "tax" of 10% to cover borglet and system daemons' overhead.