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Hundreds of service worker wages are good for the economy. You could argue that they would be better employed elsewhere and I wouldn't disagree, but bitcoin do
by cbzbc 6y ago
Hundreds of service worker wages are good for the economy. You could argue that they would be better employed elsewhere and I wouldn't disagree, but bitcoin doesn't even meet that standard.
- ClumsyPilot 6y ago"there are just under half a million problem gamblers who have their lives damaged by debt, depression, family breakdown and, in the worst cases, suicide." - that's for uk Drug dealers, brothels and mafia also create job. The economic impact of casinos is clearly negative.
- cbzbc 6y agoNow do the environmental impact of an Argentina's worth of electricity generation.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoWhy do you have this agenda that you must prove that casinos are better than bitcoin, are you a casino pitbos? Do you have any evidence that casinos consume less power than bitcoin does? In Las Vegas, casinos consume a fifth of all electricity.
- cbzbc 6y agoI'm finding your attempt to avoid dealing with the impact of bitcoin amusing. What are you, a bitcoin investor? In general it's a bad principle to try and justify environmental impact caused by one thing by pointing at environmental impact of another thing.
- cbzbc 6y agoI'm finding your attempt to avoid dealing with the impact of bitcoin amusing. What are you, a bitcoin investor?