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What is energy waste though? If I get more happy by mining Bitcoin than playing computer games, is it okay for me to use the energy I would have used for playing to mine instead?

I think that about 95 % of the activities that humans do professionally are a complete waste of time. Does it follow that I should be for banning these activities?

> Some governments even force you to put insulation on your home or they won't give you a permit to build it!

And then they point at the "evil foreign/investor buyers" when people complain of the exorbitant house prices.

Thank god governments exist to decide when I'm using my own money too wastefully. Funny how the portion of my money they already took and spent is never spent wastefully in their eyes.