I don’t think anyone should care about “unnecessary uses of resources”- that’s why we have markets.
That would apply if there were no such things as subsidies or negative externalities—if all of the costs associated with cooling a room to a given temperature were always paid by the person who decided the temperature.
That would apply if there were no such things as subsidies or negative externalities—if all of the costs associated with cooling a room to a given temperature were always paid by the person who decided the temperature.
Well that’s why we have governments...
Yeah, but I don’t think they’re anywhere near reliable enough that no-one “should care about unnecessary uses of resources”...