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There are many things produced that bring no value but pollute the world... take cigarettes for example.
by infinitone 9y ago
There are many things produced that bring no value but pollute the world... take cigarettes for example.
- nmyk 9y agoCigarettes produce value! They take the edge off.
- avip 9y agoThere must be a more cost-effective way to dilute the population. Space seems ripe for disruption.
- stcredzero 9y ago$500k for a one way ticket to Mars?
- drb91 9y agoAt least you can cash out a cigarette by smoking it. That’s value right there, even if you don’t appreciate it yourself.
- eip 9y agoOr 10K parking lots running 500+ 1kw HPS bulbs.
- IntronExon 9y agoWasteful and useless are not the same thing. A $0.00 is truly useless, while the lights in parking lots are simply wasteful.
- linuxps2 9y agoAlso, how are we defining value? Bitcoin certainly brings secure transactions to the table which has its own value (just ask the likes of Western Union, Paypal, etc...)
- bequanna 9y agoIt sounds like you have a narrow definition of the word 'value'. Care to elaborate?
- IntronExon 9y agoCigarettes are valuable, they’re just harmful as well. There are also legitimate medical uses of cigarettes for schizophrenics and perhaps others. It’s a dubious product at best, and a really poor choice for most, but some people enjoy smoking. Nuclear bombs are harmful and destructive, but hey do have a use regardless of any consensus regarding their imagined value. What can you do with a Bitcoin when no one wants to buy it from you? Try smoking it? A better analogy to Btc using cigarettes would be collecting the heat from burning cigarettes and trying to sell that.