> Just like cryptocurrency mining, it certainly drives shortages and high prices.
The prices for state of the art graphics cards which are only required for mining or gaming are high, but these products actually -subsidize- or lower prices of more generally useful, simpler tech. Please look into the price history of RAM, simple graphics cards (now builtin to many CPUs, which is very economical!) or any other basic computing components.
> Most people who want a car/truck/tractor want a reliable mechanical device
Please find me any source or other evidence that tractors or cars have gotten any less reliable. All studies done indicate the exact opposite of what you are saying. This sounds like a made-up narrative that you happen to want to be true. See: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/cars-reliability-higher-jd-powe...
And I think you are losing track of the original claims you were making about taxes here. For example:
Do the countries in question actually only tax new products, or ALL tech products?
Tech may be a polluter, but again, your claim was that this is what drives the tax policy. Tell me, do these countries tax oil by the same or a greater amount? It's obviously true that environmental concerns _do not_ drive these tax policies.
Are you going to provide an example of tech hardware being used to "control" people? Would love to see some evidence of this outrageous claim.
And I'm really begging you, when you are about to advocate for very high taxes in this area, to consider the effect it has on small businesses.
The prices for state of the art graphics cards which are only required for mining or gaming are high, but these products actually -subsidize- or lower prices of more generally useful, simpler tech. Please look into the price history of RAM, simple graphics cards (now builtin to many CPUs, which is very economical!) or any other basic computing components.
> Most people who want a car/truck/tractor want a reliable mechanical device
Please find me any source or other evidence that tractors or cars have gotten any less reliable. All studies done indicate the exact opposite of what you are saying. This sounds like a made-up narrative that you happen to want to be true. See: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/cars-reliability-higher-jd-powe...
And I think you are losing track of the original claims you were making about taxes here. For example:
Do the countries in question actually only tax new products, or ALL tech products?
Tech may be a polluter, but again, your claim was that this is what drives the tax policy. Tell me, do these countries tax oil by the same or a greater amount? It's obviously true that environmental concerns _do not_ drive these tax policies.
Are you going to provide an example of tech hardware being used to "control" people? Would love to see some evidence of this outrageous claim.
And I'm really begging you, when you are about to advocate for very high taxes in this area, to consider the effect it has on small businesses.