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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by generj on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:59AM (#27196473)
YouTube also entertains hundreds of millions of people, whereas crypto benefits the average person…how exactly?

By enabling ransom ware attacks? Creating GPU shortages?

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by jude- on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:33PM (#27198169)
YouTube also promotes conspiracy theories, racism, anti-intellectualism, authoritarianism, anti-vaxxing, and so on. These things pretty severe negative externalities, to put it mildly. So let's not pretend that YouTube's existence is a net-positive for humanity; that remains to be seen.
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