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Or perhaps: the lumber industry wouldn’t consume that many trees if people only wanted one toothpick worth of wood each year, but they want many more.
Bitcoin mining could be run on a car battery if people were content to mine one bitcoin a century, but they want many more.
It’s absurd to dismiss enormous costs on the grounds that those costs could be much lower in a counterfactual world.
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@HeavenlyPossum exactly! So that highlights that people want bitcoin!
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That people desire something does not excuse that thing