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The cost of producing dollars is much higher (both in terms of energy waste, and in terms of human rights violations) and it is just as imaginary.
by innguest 12y ago
The cost of producing dollars is much higher (both in terms of energy waste, and in terms of human rights violations) and it is just as imaginary.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoThat's interesting - does printing (not earning!) a dollar cost as much in energy? Valid idea. The 'human rights violation' part seems thrown in there. I imagine some Treasury sweatshop with rooms full of slave engravers covered in ink, working 20 hours a day.
- innguest 12y agoIt is a human rights violation because printing more money steals value from currency holders. Stealing is immoral.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoWhere do you stop with that? Everybody needs money; there are more people around all the time; you have to print more money. And is it 'stealing' to put more value-tokens into circulation - they have no intrinsic value?