alt Hacker NewsYes, but if they weren't overproduced and then either run into the ground or left waiting for demand that would never come, then wouldn't those memory chips and precious metals all still be more available than otherwise...?
I mean, sure, yes, we can try to recycle waste products—but it's still less wasteful not to produce them unnecessarily in the first place.
Agreed, but basic things like sanity seem to have left this hype cycle long ago.
Thankfully real world and physics has the final word, so we can at least plan what to do once the whole thing runs into a wall of reality & make the best of the wreckage.