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Perhaps electricity might be a better analogy?
by creeble 10y ago
Perhaps electricity might be a better analogy?
- amelius 10y agoNope, it's also a scarce resource. And similarly to water, excessive use is (usually still) bad for the planet.
- creeble 10y agoBut internet connectivity is somehow inherently limitless and deliverable for free?
- mjevans 10y agoInternet connectivity is all about maximum capacity. Everything past that is just sunk costs. It doesn't cost anything more to use it at maximum capacity than it does to just leave it on standby. (The end points MIGHT use a TINY bit more power, but we're talking on the order of cents per month for terrabytes/month of traffic; it's a rounding error.)
- tunap 10y agoThe electrical analogy is more closely comparable, but I've found water is a simpler concept for most to comprehend.