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The classic liberal move of accusing people of failing to understand things you don't understand
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liberalism without capitalism...
isn't that basically just socialism?
plus, if liberals were to invent replicators, they would use it to lower cost of production, fire staff, and raise profits while skyrocketing inequality.
"Please insert Trumpbux to begin replication"
just thought that the concept of "replicator will end scarcity" is wrong.
we have done the same with music and digital media.
at the beginning you had to buy physical media. but then we developed a way to end scarcity and have unlimited music for free. and it was immediately turned into a crime.
i guarantee that if we invent replicators, they'll we have DRM and licences and you'll have to buy a license or a subscription service.
There's a good short story by Cory Doctorow called Printcrime about how the liberal state would react to replicators.
"Printer is out of cyan matter"
if the printer can't track you what's the point in selling printers to the public...
printers hide a nearly invisible pattern in every print to act as a fingerprint to track people. so if you print something out can be tracked straight to you. so even if you print in black and white, the print needs the colours.