You're forgetting one big thing.

February 15, 2012 06:41AM
If there existed an engine with infinite energy capable of assembling protons, neutrons, and electrons together in the manner you describe, a free market would lose all meaning - markets only appear when there's a scarcity of goods and resources.

No such scarcity could possibly exist with an engine like that: there'd be no meaning in selling the information required to assemble a harrier jet, because its not like you need money for anything - if you need currency to buy something, why not just have the engine assemble it for you? It'll never run out of energy, anyway, so its not like there's any cost associated with it.
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Star Trek society, what would happen if we got replicators?

Cerunnir(VIP) February 09, 2012 09:32PM

You guys are forgetting a big part of life with replicators...

wrathpuppet February 14, 2012 06:28AM

You're forgetting one big thing.

vortexmagus February 15, 2012 06:41AM

Worry not, SOPA and PIPA will protect the original goods and stop replicators from copying them. (n/t)

DurNominator(VIP) February 14, 2012 07:31AM

You've described the perfect woman (n/t)

Matrik February 14, 2012 06:37AM

It'd be withheld by the people with the biggest guns and metered out in exchange for servitude. n/t

Death_Claw February 13, 2012 07:42AM

It sickens me, but this is how medicine is delt with today.

Cerunnir(VIP) February 13, 2012 11:10PM

It's called capitalism. Do you think this medicine just falls out of the sky?

Java February 14, 2012 05:58AM

I hope we will have outgrown capitalism sometime in the far future.

Cerunnir(VIP) February 15, 2012 12:09AM

It'll happen once we get rid of the blacks. NT

Batman February 15, 2012 03:13AM

White people should always be at war with the Nexus

Matrik February 15, 2012 07:04AM

I got a feeling they create artificial shortage to push prices up.

Cerunnir(VIP) February 15, 2012 12:02AM

Umm.. so you think they just enjoy watching people die?

Java February 15, 2012 12:21AM

The top dogs in the firms certainly care more about the bottom line and the size of their wallet than how many people they saved in the last year. nt

Cerunnir(VIP) February 15, 2012 01:14AM

And remember that part when you said they'd make the same amount by serving more?

Java February 15, 2012 01:19AM

I agree thats its the best solution for todays society. I just dont belive its the final solution, nor the best one.

Cerunnir(VIP) February 15, 2012 02:27AM

But grandma needs her pills! I don't care about logic! (n/t)

Artificial February 14, 2012 09:27AM

there is a reason most medicines come out of america

Quas February 14, 2012 05:52AM

This is pretty much how everything is handled, albeit packaged nicer. n/t

Death_Claw February 14, 2012 12:24AM

Services and technology would beome king. Status would become the new currency.

Kez February 12, 2012 10:24PM

Re: Star Trek society, what would happen if we got replicators?

odrirg February 10, 2012 03:22AM

Actually the theory behind replication is sound science wise.

Cerunnir(VIP) February 10, 2012 05:01AM

True.

The Faithful of Nazmorghul February 10, 2012 10:51AM

So much in your post makes my soul burn.

satchmo February 10, 2012 04:20PM

I'd never leave my house. (n/t)

Artificial February 09, 2012 11:51PM

If we had holodecks? Yeah, they'd find me starved to death in there eventually

satchmo February 10, 2012 04:36PM



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