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How about we don't dogmatically prohibit other adults from engaging in some class of voluntary interactions with each other. And singling out one non-essential

How about we don't dogmatically prohibit other adults from engaging in some class of voluntary interactions with each other. And singling out one non-essential activity for a ban, because it consumes electricity, is unprecendented. It's nothing more than using environmental concerns as a pretense to stamp out an activity you personally don't like for other reasons. As for what they've delivered for society, I admit it's still mostly just limited to speculation, but real promise is now being shown, in the following ways: * hundreds of millions of people potentially being empowered to earn income by sharing in the revenue their social media content generates, via community currencies, like the /r/CryptoCurrency ERC20 token, Moon [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. * people living under repressive governments being able to escape their capital controls and survive [6] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l9dye7/i_sold_my_78k_moons_to_pay_off_my_debt_i_am_now/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l9dye7/i_so... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kqrikd/sold_my_moons_to_pay_rent_thank_you_reddit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kqrikd/sold... [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/n371id/how_moons_can_change_lives_a_first_person/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/n371id/how_... [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ly79uw/as_an_iranian_crypto_has_changed_the_life_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ly79uw/as_a... [5] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l9bdtn/guys_you_just_gave_me_the_best_gift_i_could/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l9bdtn/guys... [6] https://twitter.com/Codiox/status/1375876968390909956 https://twitter.com/Codiox/status/1375876968390909956

KptMarchewa 5y ago
>How about we don't dogmatically prohibit other adults from engaging in some class of voluntary interactions with each other. No, as long as it has drastic side effects that affect others. >hundreds of millions of people potentially being empowered Poe's law strikes here hard.
- CryptoPunk 5y ago
  >>No, as long as it has drastic side effects that affect others. If the side effect is pollution, then prohibit pollution-emitting energy consumption. Don't use this as a pretense to suppress activities you don't like, by singling those activities you personally don't like, among the innumerable many non-essential activities that consume electricity, for prohibition. The rest of the effects, like retail gamblers losing money on bad investments, are voluntarily assumed, and could not possibly be worse than state-run lotteries consuming 8% of the poorest households' annual income. >>Poe's law strikes here hard. I substantiated my claim with multiple examples.
anoncake 5y ago
You can destroy your own private planet all you like.
- landemva 5y ago
  You may want to protest all the marijuana growers with their indoor farms and huge electric consumption. But now that MJ is regulated and taxed, nobody complains about that electricity consumption.

KptMarchewa 5y ago

>How about we don't dogmatically prohibit other adults from engaging in some class of voluntary interactions with each other. No, as long as it has drastic side effects that affect others. >hundreds of millions of people potentially being empowered Poe's law strikes here hard.

CryptoPunk 5y ago
>>No, as long as it has drastic side effects that affect others. If the side effect is pollution, then prohibit pollution-emitting energy consumption. Don't use this as a pretense to suppress activities you don't like, by singling those activities you personally don't like, among the innumerable many non-essential activities that consume electricity, for prohibition. The rest of the effects, like retail gamblers losing money on bad investments, are voluntarily assumed, and could not possibly be worse than state-run lotteries consuming 8% of the poorest households' annual income. >>Poe's law strikes here hard. I substantiated my claim with multiple examples.

anoncake 5y ago

You can destroy your own private planet all you like.

landemva 5y ago
You may want to protest all the marijuana growers with their indoor farms and huge electric consumption. But now that MJ is regulated and taxed, nobody complains about that electricity consumption.