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For large cars and subsidized air travel I absolutely agree. The rest has value. Unlike cryptocurrency.

• fleddr 5y ago
  Value justifies nothing. I live in a cold climate. My neighbor recently installed an outdoor hot tub, as well as outdoor heat lamps. In the midst of winter, clearly this guy is having the time of his life. It has value to him. I would hope that you agree that this is an excessive consumption of resources and that the personal notion of value means nothing. Because it means that everybody just cherry picks "value" and conveniently calls for the banning of everything that they did not pick. That's why perhaps an emission based tax is the way to go. Everybody can continue to self-optimize "value", but you're going to pay for energy suckers, regardless of what it is, a 75" TV or Bitcoin. This creates the proper incentive in both consumption and production.
  • lpcvoid 5y ago
    We can discuss proper taxation of things all day, but in the end it's way faster to simply outlaw the outliers of wastefulness. And I'm sorry but a "currency" which uses multiple countries worth of energy for a handful of transactions a second is just absolutely atrocious, no matter on what scale of reference you look at it.
    • fleddr 5y ago
      Glad we agree to ban the outliers of wastefulness.