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No. You're comparing apples and oranges.

Please do elaborate.

You're comparing Europe (where the average monthly income is ~$3,184.98/mo [0]) with China (where the median monthly income is ~$431.38 USD USD[1]).

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/15216629/24279737/KS... [1] https://wage.is/china/

How is that relevant to the argument that legacy hardware’s power inefficiency isn’t as big of a deal when electricity prices are lower?

Since you didn't make this argument in this thread - how is that argument relevant to the discussion at hand?

Here is where the argument was made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041044

> I imagine those countries have sane energy prices compared to Western Europe.

No. There is no argument being made regarding "legacy hardware’s power inefficiency isn’t as big of a deal when electricity prices are lower".

That's just complaining that Western Europe has high energy prices compared to China without taking into consideration how different these economies are.

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