When you can replicate anything you want, why would you commit theft or robbery? Say you like diamonds, after replicating a 10,000 carat diamond, would you bother to make more?
What if I don't want a replicated diamond or a replicated 1967 Shelby Cobra with a 427? What if I want the OG? We have replicated diamonds right now but yet some people still insist that those are not real and insist on buying ones mined from the Earth.
There is no cure for stupidity. Diamonds are artificially kept out of people's hands to prop up its price.
See it gets more complicated than that. What if I could replicate Najeonchilgi. Would you be ok purchasing a replication made by a machine or would you prefer something more authentic?
I wouldn't be purchasing. I would be replicating. Not that I am interested in lacquerware. When you can reproduce items identical on the molecular level, value is out of the window.
My Najeonchilgi is better than yours because mine is authentic. Mine was produced in 600 AD by Korean artists who are renowned for producing some of the best the world has ever known.
LoL whatever makes you happy. I have no interest in lacquerware. Pretty sure we had lacquerware class in elementary arts and craft when I was a kid in Taiwan.
It's not about making me happy. What is the value of something if it could just be replicated? In a way we have already replicated valuable objects such as diamonds or lacquerware so what does that mean going forward?
That is the entire point, when something no longer has value, you have no craving for it.
But it is about making you happy. It makes you happier to know you have an ancient artifact, most people would be satisfied having an identical item.
I could totally see that working for the majority of people but there will always be people who want the OG. So then how do those people pay for it if money doesn't exist like was eluded to on the previous page when sdifox facetiously accused me of not being a ST fan because money does not exist in the ST universe?
No, I don't care about a car all that much it was just an example or metaphor for the sake of the thought experiment. Same with the lacquerware.
That's 100% marketing at work.
That's getting into a whole mess of resource scarcity and colonialism and capitalism and tribalism.
Don't live in an RV if you're not about that lifestyle. It's probably also more expensive than it might seem given parking restrictions, maintenance and upkeep (including fuel), and all the other logistics that would come into play (mail forwarding, loss of privacy, upfront purchasing costs...).
Oh for sure that is why I said on Friday "It is for sure a great thought experiment." because IMO an almost limitless energy would not solve those problems. At least not right away. Who knows how long it would take. 200 years, 500, 1,000? Who knows that is why I posed it more as a thought experiment more than a literal interpretation of my words.
This is what I wrote elsewhere...
Any and all material need can be addressed with the replicator, except for gold pressed Latinum. But that is really more of a Ferengi thing.
So I'm not a huge ST fan more of a fair weather fan so I did not remember if Château Picard is actually a thing in the ST universe.
So I'm not a huge ST fan more of a fair weather fan so I did not remember if Château Picard is actually a thing in the ST universe.
Turns out it is and someone has turned it into a real thing. I can buy a bottle of Chateau Picard 2386 for the low price of $60 plus shipping. LOL...wow...
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