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.
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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Unless the teleporters cost money to run?
$600 for your teleport pad and just a $29.99 a month subscription after
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.
With the greed of corporations you pay the premium tier for teleportation and low cost shipping to wait a few days.
Shipping costs may go, but shipping fees will remain.
Yeh, then it would be teleportation costs.
If capitalism is still the main ecomonic system when that happens, the costs will still exist they just won't be justified the same way.
The fees the customer pay will also be higher. Because fuck you.
Trump won't exist if teleportation is invented.
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.
wait so if data is like dna, does that make computers like plants with their pollen being data packets like memes, articles, and videos... and we're the pollinators?
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.
The physical shipping costs will be much higher, the shipping market will become luxurious and you won't be able to afford that.
Not necessarily. Still takes energy to move it. Depending on the energy required, could still have a cost
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.