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Originally Posted by ardeegee
See, I was right-- you just described the exact future that I wish to live in-- as if it were a bad thing. My black is your white, my white is your black. "The end of need, want, commerce, value, finance, etc" is a good thing!
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I'd also like to point out that replicators for physical objects do not eliminate the need for work. People would still need to create the originals (or designs for originals) that will be replicated. People will still need space to live, resources for the replicators, and energy to run them.
And in fact, very early replicators already exist. 3D printers. Extrapolate 3D printers a few decades down the line, and you get something very close to a replicator.
I'm very hopeful that the world will continue to improve over the next century, and that we will get to a state where people work because they want to, not because they have to in order to get enough to eat.