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Apologies, but the translation here is difficult to parse. I’m not clear what you’re trying to say. Previously, you said only gold and silver are accepted as payment. No matter how you translate that, it’s wrong.

As I noted in my first response, the owners of the hardware pay the electricity bills, and everyone else pays the externalities.

This is part of the reason miners tend to setup their servers in locations where electricity is extremely cheap. Even within countries, the costs of electricity can vary tremendously from one region to the next.

Then your existing knowledge completely ignores how the vast majority of the world actually functions and can be dismissed as not being relevant to the discussion here.

I think I’d have better luck picking up a turd by the clean end than having a rational intelligible conversation with this OP.

You’re either misrepresenting the theory or the theory is wrong. I’d bet it’s the former. No, it doesn’t. Automation is not the only response to competition. For example, companies could instead build better products that are more desirable to buyers, or which better fit the demand niche. Your views on this are being presented so simplistically that they’re not even wrong. Here’s a spot, however, where you should be more simple. Profits happen when revenues exceed costs. End program. This isn’t exactly rocket science.

This is basically what we do already with regular non-printed currencies offered by governments. Because it’s at the heart of the entire process and ensures transactions are valid / not being double counted. They’re also responsible for “minting” bitcoins into circulation. The miners are the folks who validate “blocks” (about 1MB) of Bitcoin transactions and those blocks are what get added to the blockchain. Technically, Bitcoin could still be used without miners, but it would also mean no more bitcoins would ever be created. We could also stop mining gold, or rare earths and just use what we’ve already pulled out of the ground, but it puts a serious limit on what we can do. Instead of stopping mining, we should be focusing on sourcing our energy around the entire globe in a cleaner and more sustainable way. https://www.investopedia.com/tech/how-does-bitcoin-mining-work/

You’re basically asking me how people earn money to pay their bills. You need to ask better questions.

Not the users. The miners. And that’s just electricity bills. There are what economists call “externalities” that should be considered, too. Those are costs paid by others due to the choices of those doing the mining.

You're generalizing too much here. Laziness is not the relevant metric. In fact, it's often said that the worlds very best engineers are the ones who are truly lazy, for they are always seeking ways to do things more quickly and efficiently so as to minimize their own time investment requirements. Either way, this isn't a thread about laziness or some puritanical work ethics. It's about the concept of money itself.

I dunno. I kinda appreciate being able to so easily tell when I’m interacting with a deluded paste eater who STILL after all these decades continues rejecting the absurdly obvious truth of evolution by natural selection. It keeps things more authentic and efficient that way.

Maybe. We don’t yet know, but it’s moot anyway. Neither fish nor insects are generally classified as animals. Thanks for playing, though.

Animals also have emotions so this fails no matter how you view it

It’s amazing how well you can contradict yourself even within a single sentence. That’s quite a talent. I believe you’re being intentionally obtuse, willfully ignorant, and not discussing the topic in good faith. The thread obviously isn’t (yet) locked given that I’ve just replied. See last point above about failure to engage the discussion with intellectual honesty and good faith.

130 posts in 4 days. He’s “not getting it” on purpose, folks.

You’d probably be better off seeking information about self confidence, acceptance of self, and confirmation bias.

Confusion and uncertainty regarding WTF a consciousness frequency is. Also, I've reversed your neg rep.

These same points apply to universal healthcare. Having basics like access to healthcare without fear of bankruptcy enables entrepreneurs to take greater risks and achieve greater rewards without facing total catastrophic loss in the event of an unforeseen illness. These same points apply also to having a minimum floor in place for access to food and shelter, or even a universal basic income. We agree our economy is neither purely capitalistic nor purely socialistic. We even agree this is a good thing. Where we (“we” as a people, not necesssrily you and me here personally) tend to lose traction is when we begin discussing where the optimum point exists along that spectrum between capitalism and socialism, or when labels are bandied about to poison the well of honest debate among citizens.

I’d wager money that this is just another setup to gay bash and talk about how manly he looks 🙄

Which brings us full circle back to the very first reply in this thread where I said:

There. FTFY

Money does, however, help buy happiness up to a point... According to recent data, anyway. Around October of last year, some new research came out suggesting that the threshold is somewhere around $70K per year. Happiness is harder below that point and easier above it, but the gains in happiness don't continue to grow as income does... For example, $300K per year is not meaningfully different from $70K per year in terms of happiness. This suggests that the money / happiness connection exists, but is less about being happier per se, and more about struggling less and not consistently experiencing poverty anymore once money is available. An interesting aside is that greater access tp money/wealth DOES allow one to have greater experiences (both in terms of frequency and quality), and research shows that experiences DO lead to more happiness, FAR more than materialistic possessions.

Does your keyboard not offer periods?

At this point in the pandemic, anyone still consciously deciding NOT to get vaccinated is a) not acting like a responsible citizen, b) being informed by horribly inaccurate sources, c) a complete moron, or d) some combination of the above. As you can tell, none of those are terribly positive. Go get vaccinated. There's literally zero good reason not to. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

What is the energy source for cooling the water below freezing point?