2w ago

Shipping costs will no longer exist if teleportation is invented.

Edit: This only refers to costs (paid by the manufacturers), not fees (paid for by the buyers).

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That's so far from true. It'll be cost of electricity. Heat. Distance shipped. They'll probably tack on some country border crossing fee. They'll find ways to make it more expensive simply because it's an earth shattering technology.
“If I make something up, I can make up whatever I want about it.”
Yup.
Unless the teleporters cost money to run?
I'd imagine the energy cost to teleport something would be much higher than a vehicle, just faster.
Also thanks to Capitalism, even if it was 0 energy and instant, the fees would stay or go up. A business under capitalism will never voluntarily decrease potential profits in the long term.
- Same reasons airplanes didn't kill trains and boats for freight. Airplanes are fast, but they ain't cheap.
I see you are missing the the ever present influence of corporate greed.
Pay us $30 to get the package to your customer in 3 days, or $150 to get it there in the next hour. Why $150? because people will pay it.
Shipping costs may go, but shipping fees will remain.
With the greed of corporations you pay the premium tier for teleportation and low cost shipping to wait a few days.
$600 for your teleport pad and just a $29.99 a month subscription after
Once teleportation exist, so do replicators and all costs apart from energy costs disappear.
- Internet is technically teleportation (of data) and I am not seeing replicators anywhere.
  
  With the interpretation of the internet being teleportation of data, your Webbrowser becomes a replicator of data, as e.g. the video that you are streaming from YouTube is merely being copied from its servers, but not deleted from its source.
  In general computers are just copying data, i.e. replicating data.
  
  Data is copied 100s of times just from a server to your device.
  
  Ah, yes. That's why when you upload a photo to facebook, only one friend gets to download it before you have to re-upload it for the next person.
Trump won't exist if teleportation is invented.
Not necessarily. Still takes energy to move it. Depending on the energy required, could still have a cost
The physical shipping costs will be much higher, the shipping market will become luxurious and you won't be able to afford that.
Knowing how expending machines are more expensive that buying in a shop, even if the cost are lower. I 100% know that even free teleportation would be more expensive for the user.

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