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> I am paying for it. If you don't like my use, either raise the price or, well, leave me alone. Residential miners are using subsidized electricity. We do tha
by vorpalhex 5y ago
> I am paying for it. If you don't like my use, either raise the price or, well, leave me alone.
Residential miners are using subsidized electricity. We do that so Grandma can afford to be warm and run her dryer.
If we forced miners to use commercial electricity plans then they would in fact pay a whole mess more.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 5y agoI find this argument odd. Is the electricity used by the business somehow different than the one used by grandma? Are these currents used by the business somehow more special? No. If anything, based on my dad's experience as a shop owner, businesses pay much higher rates than individuals. They are not subsidizing grandma. They are subsidizing bureaucrat lives. That is all the there is to it. Still, let us say that I accept your argument, some miners actually bought various electricity producing entities. Now what? Are you going to argue they can't use the electricity they generate or are you going to argue that we can then force them out of business some other way. Either undermines some tenets of US society, but I am curious now.