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by JoeAltmaier 4310 days ago
That's interesting - does printing (not earning!) a dollar cost as much in energy? Valid idea.

The 'human rights violation' part seems thrown in there. I imagine some Treasury sweatshop with rooms full of slave engravers covered in ink, working 20 hours a day.
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innguest 4308 days ago
It is a human rights violation because printing more money steals value from currency holders. Stealing is immoral.
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JoeAltmaier 4308 days ago
Where do you stop with that? Everybody needs money; there are more people around all the time; you have to print more money. And is it 'stealing' to put more value-tokens into circulation - they have no intrinsic value?
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