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Oh hey, would you like to talk about how cool replicators are and their role in helping achieve post-scarcity?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

would you like to talk about how cool replicators are and their role in helping achieve post-scarcity?

Or how it might be the opposite. I'm in the camp that says it's because humans progressed as a species that they could make a post-scarcity society work. If replicators got invented today some billionaire would just patent it and lock it behind DRM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Replicators didn't even help humans achieve the post-scarcity society. Humans already had a post-scarcity society by the time they were given replicator technology by another race.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure I agree. Replicators are basically just better 3D printers, and those are pretty readily available.