Imagine if the government let people use the money printer but they had to keep pressing a button over and over to print each dollar. People would or course make a machine to press the button for them (bots). The issue is probably the money printer and less the bots. But how to reward players without printing stuff? Hard problem. Albion has a cool system called the black market where you sell stuff to mobs loot tables. Maybe thats a part of it.

Bots are a deflationary force 🤭 making farmable in-demand items more affordable as time goes on as more efficient ways to bot/farm are constantly found