strip-mined

Hint, grasshopper, he is not passionate about you, he views you as a resource to be strip-mined.

As many have noted (including someone upthread), Disney itself strip-mined the public domain for many of its big-budget pictures.

But who protects the outlier creator from being mentally strip-mined by a sea of Takers?

Once it's been strip-mined for all value, of course nobody wants it.

Sometimes solutions get treated as resources instead of infrastructure, like a water treatment plant that got strip-mined for metal (that example was from South America).

Adequate remediation of strip-mined areas can be expensive too.

I’d gladly pay $100 for a compiler if it meant my life's work wasn't strip-mined for $0 by the companies providing the 'free' tools.

And he's dead and he's been dead for a long time, and people still paying daily attention to this are being played for laughs and having their rage strip-mined.

The expanded café, the drastic reduction in books and magazines, PC parts getting strip-mined and never restocked, audio/video media slowly disappearing; you could feel the shift.

The lower-middle-class gets strip-mined.

Every resource on earth is eventually strip-mined, life can no longer be supported, and the aliens just move on to the next "voluntary" target.

This is the culmination of the fragile "partnership" arc between the open web and Big Tech: fattened up with fast-tracked non-standard technologies and subsidized services, bastardized with ads, strip-mined by AI, and discarded in favor of this everything app, promising you an imitation of nearly every stolen work, with a minimal reduction in resolution and quality.