They said rip chips, those are the "orange tics." Also quite frankly if you have 400 hours of playtime, even if half of that was idling, 200 hours put into the game within two months is way more than than what the majority of players can do, and I wouldn't want the devs balancing the economy for that. It would make the game completely miserable for most players.
Also obviously they're going to add more to spend your rip chips on, we already know we're getting a fourth city district that'll have a whole bunch of new boxes to open, and I imagine each district will get increased caps and more boxes down the road too.