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I don't really care about this outside of brainstorming but do you think the economic activity you engage in to earn a wage and purchase a game is entirely without consequence?
When you shed microplastics and emit carbon on your way to work does that just not factor into your equation?
When you do meaningless trivial work for a corporation that pollutes for profit is that not also wasteful?
Even if you as a person have some magical green job, most of us don't have that luxury. Most of our jobs are just as dirty and polluting as crypto mining.
Passing the “carbon credit” on to my employment is kinda outside of my hands, since that is dictated by my employer, which few are lucky enough to have a meaningful decision in. People also don’t work an extra amount that somehow corresponds to “waste money” but budget out the amount they earn.
As an idea, using crypto to offset the API costs to crypto and thus to electricity usage is wild because I’m still paying the same dollar amount, just in electricity that I have then wasted, and not directly on the game without all the middle man BS. So instead of paying for API + profit, I’m paying for electricity, which is then wasted generating crypto to pay for a game I could just pay for directly without the excess energy waste.
So you just categorize the pollution generated by your employment as an externality and ignore it.
More that it isn't relevant to this discussion because in the hypothetical you're still spending the same amount, just on electricity instead of the game cost.
And yes, because labor rights are a joke in this country. I've got bills to pay and mouths to feed.