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Congratulations. It happens. I didn't think it was too bad an idea. What if steam ran the miner to produce steam bux?
That would be a huge waste of ressources. We as humans need to switch to carbon-free energy sources and should not start wasting ressources on mining "steam bux".
Sure, but we're not going to suddenly move to some Star Trek commie utopia. For now, developers need to get paid. Either I goto work and make money (burning carbon) to pay for it, or advertising (toxic) pays for it, or crypto mining (also toxic). How does this developer, living under capitalism, buy food, housing and medical without something to make money? Goodwill donation links are unlikely to cut it.
You are correct - but we totally have ways of monetization that don't require you to burn a lot of energy. Like normal money for example.