During the gold rush, it is said, the only people who made money were the ones selling the pickaxes. A"I" companies are ~selling~ renting the pickaxes of today.

(I didn't come up with this quote but I can't find the source now. If anything good comes out of LLMs, it's making me appreciate other people's more and trying to give credit where it's due.)

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netsharc 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wasn't it shovels?

NVidia is a shovel-maker worth a few trillion dollars...

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kapsi 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What about the people who sold gold? Didn't they make money?

	▲	martin-t 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To be honest, I haven't looked at any statistics but I imagine a tiny few of those looking for gold found any and got rich, the most either didn't find anything, died of illness or exposure or got robbed. I just like the quote as a comparison. Updated the original comment to reflect I haven't checked if it's correct.