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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8731457" data-attributes="member: 42856">No. You're buying from them. Sure, you could make ethical decisions when purchasing, but I find "mints NFTs" a very low bar for influencing your buying pattern, akin to boycotting one for not having a strong and public stance on pineapple pizzas.The video is 2 hours long because half of it is discussing the mortgage speculation and 2008 banking crisis, then going on to crypto-currency and how NFTs are a gateway drug to make one's buy crypto-currencies. The chapter about NFTs starts around the 1h33min mark, where he reveals that NFTs as access passes will turn the Internet into a dystopia, where people whose account has NFT for giving to a charity supporting a specific group would be denied selling products by companies (because probably in the meantime all consumers and privacy laws will be revoked, so companies could check the blockchain to identify you as supportive of product A so they can deny you access to their product B, or charge more than if you hadn't bought product A in the first place). Even if there is something related to thrashing the environment, I'd take it with a grain of salt. I guess the strongest point would be that crypto-currency mining requires electricty and energy that could be put to better use, but I am not convinced NFTs transactions are on par with crypto mining as an industry. They could, at some point, though (and, to be honest, even a modicum of energy wasted is still wasted).At no points he seems to address the use of NFTs to create numbered copies of an original artwork and how it might be inherently evil. Which artists have been selling, as hand-signed lithographs, for centuries. And which caused speculation (copy numbered #7 is often less expansive than #1 and more expansive than #473) for centuries without anyone batting an eye. And which might be the exact behaviour of the RPG artist creating NFTs for his drawing. Sure, it might encourage speculation, and scams that appeared around NFTs, but we didn't stop making new houses after the housing bubble.</blockquote>

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