Re:Sell Bitcoin, Save Lives: Some Bitcoin Simulators
by bethecloud on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:08PM
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The "amount of human lives cost" is also not a real thing, because we have an incomplete picture of elasticity for market substitutes for energy demand (which is nearly all goods, because they all require energy)
Point is - using your dryer does not actually cause human suffering. This is a simply a utilitarian argument with an incomplete picture, the structure of which is often utilized to promote atrocities like communism, genocide, etc.
Re:Sell Bitcoin, Save Lives: Some Bitcoin Simulators
by jtolds on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:53PM
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Your dryer does actually cause some real portion of attributable human suffering. It's easy to armchair discuss this, but have a look at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24487-w
Think about that for a second, you just said your "convenience" is transferable for some minimal amount of human lives. That this psychopathic "market" thinks that is fine?
No, the market does not have all the truth. How many people know the amount of suffering the cause when they use their dryer or buy bitcoin? Do you really think that most stop to think about this because it is included in the manual of every dryer sold in the world?