[px43]

Eh, the vast majority of these cards are used by people who are rendering fantasy worlds so they can run around pretending to be an elf, or a soldier, or some other stupid thing. Lots of them are full grown adults too, just wasting time that they could be doing something meaningful with.

That's way WAY dumber than powering a next generation global financial infrastructure.

[antiterra]

While we’re at it, let’s get rid of the other meaningless stuff, like fiction novels, watching sporting events, poetry, visual arts, theater, and being a tired technocrat with shallow self-righteous ideas about what is and isn’t meaningful.

Of course, most gamers don’t game 24x7 while their multi-GPU rack is pegged at 100% either.

[munk-a]

Heck, while we're at it both sex and reproduction can be put on the chopping block as well - nothing has meaning except the acquisition of wealth, right?

[madamelic]

Wow, that's new. A cryptocurrency proponent who hates video games.

[babypuncher]

I would argue that entertainment is of greater societal value than polynomial solutions you can trade for crack.

That isn't to say that I think crypto is worthless, I think it has the same worth as any fiat currency. We don't spend an entire 1% of the world's energy printing and handling a tiny fraction of the world's banknotes. Crypto is orders of magnitude less energy efficient than every other form of currency on the planet. It's like if everyone started commuting to work in 18-wheeler semis.

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This is the third comment on this thread I've seen that *really* needed an /s