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		generj on May 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post m... YouTube also entertains hundreds of millions of people, whereas crypto benefits the average person…how exactly? By enabling ransom ware attacks? Creating GPU shortages?

jude- on May 18, 2021 [–]

YouTube also promotes conspiracy theories, racism, anti-intellectualism, authoritarianism, anti-vaxxing, and so on. These things pretty severe negative externalities, to put it mildly. So let's not pretend that YouTube's existence is a net-positive for humanity; that remains to be seen.

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