It is wasteful because it is expending fossil fuels, manufacturing and raw materials to build the compute resources to perform calculations that don’t produce a

It is wasteful because it is expending fossil fuels, manufacturing and raw materials to build the compute resources to perform calculations that don’t produce any intrinsic value, but rather just another way to represent and redistribute the value that already exists. It is as worthless as options/RSUs until you convert it to currency, and no currency is created in that transaction. It’s like writing an unnecessary API wrapper or similar abstraction layer. YAGNI