As for waste, spam, elitism etc, just read the quotes of satoshi in my post above. Was he an elitist or a realist - in terms of how the network operates?
You tried to derail the block size topic with an off-topic post bringing up random Satoshi quotes about micropayments. Not a single person in the thread mentioned the word "micropayments", and:
Minimum transaction fee is the anti-spam mechanism of Bitcoin, not block sizehttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1295293.0