We often mention the insane energy consumption of #bitcoin
, but not enough its insane electronic waste. Bitcoin eats 12 000 tons of custom hardware (useless for anything else) / year. This has a significant role in the current worldwide shortage on electronic components (wafers).https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1374302539919847425 …
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Imagine you cannot afford rent. You'd like to be responsible and ride the bus to help the environment but you have to get to work and your community has not invested in infrastructure. You buy a car the first chance you get, and it's not gonna be a nice electric Tesla.
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Climate change is not caused by individual consumers at the bottom of the pyramid not knowing how to make lower impact choices. It's just not. It's caused by the obscenely wealthy who can afford to make choices making the wrong ones so that they can be more obscenely wealthy.
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How does the rich guy not starve? Is he working the field alone?
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He pays as few people as he can get away with paying to do the minimum necessary work to maintain his safety and power I mean, that's always what rich guys do, but you're bragging about creating a system that reduces this threshold to the bare minimum
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