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Old 04-08-2019, 12:40 AM   #5552 (permalink)
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The price of anything is mostly to do with the amount of human time and effort put into it. With robot automation replacing human effort, and possibly robots making robots, we trend towards zero marginal cost. Stuff will cost next to nothing. When things cost next to nothing, the limits for resource consumption are removed.

The problem will be that we'll be so "rich" that resources are rapidly depleted. That's already an issue with current levels of automation.
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