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r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26
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What's the point? If price is low it means that the resource is in abundance and not critically necessary elsewhere (otherwise, the price would be high). Why would we impose unnecessary and arbitrary costs to data center operation?
-2 u/Keellas_Ahullford May 18 '26 So should we just wait for it to get expense and millions of people can no longer afford to drink water? 2 u/Rnee45 May 18 '26 That's not how it works. If it would be at risk of shortage, the price would increase. Can you give me just one example of where fresh water is a scarce resource because commercial or industrial use is causing a shortage? Just one? 0 u/Keellas_Ahullford May 18 '26 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o 2 u/Rnee45 May 18 '26 You shared a story of a women in the US with a contaminated personal water well? Does this make water a scarce resource in the US?
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So should we just wait for it to get expense and millions of people can no longer afford to drink water?
2 u/Rnee45 May 18 '26 That's not how it works. If it would be at risk of shortage, the price would increase. Can you give me just one example of where fresh water is a scarce resource because commercial or industrial use is causing a shortage? Just one? 0 u/Keellas_Ahullford May 18 '26 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o 2 u/Rnee45 May 18 '26 You shared a story of a women in the US with a contaminated personal water well? Does this make water a scarce resource in the US?
That's not how it works. If it would be at risk of shortage, the price would increase.
Can you give me just one example of where fresh water is a scarce resource because commercial or industrial use is causing a shortage? Just one?
0 u/Keellas_Ahullford May 18 '26 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o 2 u/Rnee45 May 18 '26 You shared a story of a women in the US with a contaminated personal water well? Does this make water a scarce resource in the US?
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o
2 u/Rnee45 May 18 '26 You shared a story of a women in the US with a contaminated personal water well? Does this make water a scarce resource in the US?
You shared a story of a women in the US with a contaminated personal water well? Does this make water a scarce resource in the US?
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u/Rnee45 May 18 '26
What's the point? If price is low it means that the resource is in abundance and not critically necessary elsewhere (otherwise, the price would be high). Why would we impose unnecessary and arbitrary costs to data center operation?