[centimeter]

Yes, they would find jobs elsewhere, and their energy consumption and pollution would no longer go to support the finance industry. If you want to make a fair equilibrium comparison, compare the current state of affairs with a future state of affairs where the population is smaller by the amount of people who currently work for payment processors.

[p1necone]

I'm really not understanding your argument here. We should decrease the worlds population by the number of people who currently work for financial institutions?

[centimeter]

I’m not proposing we literally do that; I’m explaining how to fairly compare the resource consumption of Bitcoin to the resource consumption of the payment industry, factoring in opportunity costs.