Again, I'll reiterate, this is simply a means to bring more tokens into the ecosystem, just like BTC mining. BTC mining is utterly worthless, and just "mines" ever-increasingly difficult equations to earn a bit of the new distribution. Flux is the distributive portion of DAM. What is there not to get? They aren't separate entities. Flux gains its value from the "lock in time", just like BTC gets its value from solving useless equations. Burning is irrelevant to the discussion, because its just another method of earning a bigger portion of the Flux distributions (think, having a bigger share of a mining pool).
Now this was helpful.
I'm not particularly new to crypto, but I'm not well-versed on minting methods other than PoW. Perhaps there are others out there like me. For dummies like me it would be helpful to have explanations in plain English without jargon.
I guess another question I have is 'why are there two tokens'. Why not have staking DAM create more DAM? Are there other projects out there with this 2-token approach?