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Burning the furniture to heat the house is such a good analogy, wow.
Pretty sure some of that furniture was structural
Load-bearing, some might say
Hey, at least it'll be warm for a hot minute!
Sure we destroyed the planet, but for a while there we provided great shareholder value.
I've heard it as sell the car to buy gasoline
Also very accurate 😄
Shitting the nest is a more abrasive analogy for when you really mean it.
I think "Shitting where you eat" works a little better, given they're shitting all over the internet, which is where their training data comes from
Edit: Spelling
I've heard shitting on your own doorstep. Doesn't fit as nicely as the furniture analogy though IMO 😆
An old one is "eating your seed corn". In other words eating the seeds you need to plant the next crop to survive now guaranteeing you will starve next season.
Wow, also really good 😅