The rationale is that the AI companies are selling the shovels to both generate this pile as well as the ones we'll need to clean it up.

I vividly remember the image of one guy digging a hole and another filling it with dirt as a representation of government bureaucracy and similar. Looks like office workers are gonna have the same privilege.

> I vividly remember the image of one guy digging a hole and another filling it with dirt as a representation of government bureaucracy and similar.

To be clear, it wasn’t dirt that I envisioned being shoveled.

Oh, no confusion from my side!