alt Hacker NewsIt is a paradox. The paradox is that increasing the efficiency of resource usage can lead to more resource usage.
If you think that isn't a paradox because you can fairly easily explain why that is the case, you need to go and check what "paradox" means.
You said:
> No, we pay less for it. But there's much higher demand so overall use goes up.
This is economics 101, not a paradox.
To clarify how I read you: "If the price goes down, more people will want to buy, hence more units are sold"
The paradox is that _one_ person, or entity, pays more as the price goes down.