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If it existed, was proven safe, and was widely available enough for anyone to use, then of course.
The auto and airline industries would collapse, reducing pollution and global warming.
The biggest downside I can think of offhand is that everyone could vacation wherever they like, and that would quickly overcrowd and ruin all the nice places.
Oof...everybody being able to go to whatever the latest viral pool above a waterfall or cronut shop is all at once...
What if it's "proven safe" in the same way that surgery under general anaesthetic is safe - nobody remembers feeling pain. Nobody (mostly) reports pain after waking up. But what if it's torture and you just don't remember it afterwards.
Teleporter is kinda the same, but no one coming out of the other end remembers dying because in their memory they didn't.
People would also be able to commute to their jobs from any distance, which would probably cause people to spread out instead of all gathering in big cities.