I hate inefficient software for its human cost. Add up the wasted human time and it's whole lifetimes lost to thoughtless software. I'll bet if you calculated

I hate inefficient software for its human cost. Add up the wasted human time and it's whole lifetimes lost to thoughtless software. I'll bet if you calculated the carbon "cost" of a human life and did the math on the wasted human time it would be higher than the incremental electricity cost of the datacenter or amortized manufacturing cost of the phone or whatever else you're worried about. But I feel much worse about the wasted life for its own sake, personally.