I'll backtrack a little. In an earlier post, he was comparing eating a chicken burger to the holocaust as both being objectively immoral, as anything that causes or justifies unnecessary suffering is objectively immoral.
I brought up that bitcoin has caused unnecessary suffering. He said it doesn't cause suffering, it helps mankind. I gave examples of unnecessary suffering and presented as opportunity for him to justify the suffering or conceded that causing or justifying suffering does not automatically make someone immoral, objectively.
Saying it doesn't cause suffering is stupid. Even incredibly useful things quite often cause suffering.
I suffer if I step on a lego... The suffering bitcoin has helped facilitate....
The whole moral thing was a weird derailment. I'm with you on that one. Morality is a social construct. There's no way that it can ever be objectively moral or immoral.
I'm with you on all of these.
The prove block chain technology will be beneficial part was kinda funny though. I feel bad for being a dick about it but I still stand by it being funny.
Anyways if you're interested in how they can be beneficial and possibly get a good return on an investment I'd recommend you check out power ledger.
This is a post I made in another thread on it.
Power ledger allows people to sell electricity through smart meters to their neighbors rather than electrical companies through smart contracts built on the blockchain.
I'm from the country that launched it and I have no doubt that there's a massive market for its product here. We've been facing an energy crisis here due to political bickering turning off investors. No one wants to spend on big fossil fuel or green systems because the right or the left will slash incentives when they get into power.
We pay a shitload for our electricity and the vast majority of us get 2/5ths of 5/8ths of fuckall when we sell it back to the electrical companies from our solar.
Except for a small amount of people who got in early when the government was forcing the power companies to actually pay a decent amount for their electricity, like 3% of the people have solar . Those people make a fucking killing. I know a few of them, all of which have massive solar systems on their roof generating 2-5k per year.
Sounds crazy huh?
If you've never been here in summer it's almost impossible to understand but it's like there's a completely different sun in my country. My girlfriend works with a Sudanese woman who went to the doctor feeling sick only to find out she was sun burnt. She didn't know what it was. Lived in Sudan and had never been burnt in her life until she came here. Combine that sun with the highest prices on earth for electricity and it's not so crazy.
Only problem is most of us who have solar didn't get it before the government mandate on pricing ran out. So you get fuckall selling to power companies. With Power Ledger sellers get more for their electricity, buyers get cheaper electricity.
We already have more solar panels on our roofs per capita than any country on earth. We pay more for electricity than any country on earth.
This is going to be huge. Buyers win, sellers win, the environment wins. Maybe not so much energy companies but I can live with that. It makes solar a viable investment for individuals.
