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.)
What about the people who sold gold? Didn't they make money?
Wasn't it shovels?
NVidia is a shovel-maker worth a few trillion dollars...