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Get together with your neighbor, replicate the parts of each other's replicator. Repeat this daily for a bit. Exponential growth. Give it a month or so, then just go ham and make everything you want, maybe after renting a warehouse to keep them all in.

Even if you didn't want to use it for money, you'd have to use it for money somehow just to keep up with the inflation.

The obvious answer: Use your replicator to replicate more replicators.

The correct answer: The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.

The clever dick corollary: 1m^3^ is actually quite a large volume, and ain't no rule says you can only replicate one object at a time. If whatever luxury item or commodity you want is small in volume, which it probably is, don't forget you can replicate a whole bunch of it within a meter cube.

Day 1, I replicate a replicator kit and put it together. I also contact a realtor and let them know I'm interested in buying some land. Off grid, far from cities, doesn't matter.

Day 2, I replicate two replicator kits and put them together.

Day 3, I replicate four replicator kits. I've now got eight of them. I'm not sure I'll need sixteen, at least not right away, and my basement is starting to get a bit crowded. So I'll leave it at that for the moment, but the moment I think I need more replicator capacity I can have it.

Day 1: create 264 gallons of water (probably enough for a month)

Day 2: create a cubic meter of food (also probably enough for a month)

Day 3 to next rationing: spend thinking of all the awesome things I could create but end up getting overwhelmed and doing nothing instead

Replicate the replicator. Next day, use both to replicate replicators. Repeat ad nauseam.

The vast majority of people would make as much money as they could. Quickly, the economy implodes. People soon realize they can exchange their matter replicator for eggs. A new billionaire class arises, using their millions of matter replicators to make basic necessities for the worker class. The modern assembly line is now just row upon row upon row of matter replicators. One man per warehouse, just moving from matter replicator to matter replicator.

A few smarter people used their matter replicators to make more matter replicators. Lobbyists quickly pass "safety regulations", and these "black market" replicators are outlawed. Soon local police start advertising "amnesty", where you can bring in your illegal matter replicator and exchange it, no questions asked, for a gun.

A few unlucky people used their matter replicators to make drugs. The purity of replicated drugs quickly renders these people unable to continue using their replicators. These replicators are collected by next-of-kin, stolen by the people that exchanged their own replicator for eggs, or accidentally destroyed.

Can I adjust dimensions? Like, can I replicated a car, but a tiny one that will fit in a 1x1x1m cube?

If so, I'd replicate 1/8th of the replicator, but double sized. Repeat for all other parts, assemble, and now I have a 2m³ replicator. Repeat until I have one big enough to replicate a house.

Then, the whole point of the exercise: replicate a house-sized Funyun.

Solid cube of antimatter. Fuck you world!

The moment you try to min max the economy will fall apart. Replicate new PC parts? Cool, but now intel/AMD/Nvidia will go bankrupt, no more development. So I guess you could min-max the economical revolution. Capitalism doesn't appear to make sense in a world with near endless access to anything.

Personally I'd get heaps of food and water

I hate that by now, I have found a way for capitalist to bill you anyways.

My first thought was to start work on a de-replicator. Lot of people about to have a lot of junk in their house and it'll pile up quickly.

Not sure how long it'll take until the earth becomes a black hole.

I might also try and put a few new squares on the periodic table.

I suspect a lot of guns, explosives, body armor and anti-armor munitions due to the immediate civil war that would break out in most countries as the wealthy elite tells the government to confiscate everyones matter replicators.

1. Make a nuclear bomb. You don't need a whole ICBM, a single MIRV warhead can fit in the available space.
2. Threaten to set it off if everyone in the area doesn't give me their fabricator.
3. Expand operations/nuke delivery range.
4. Have a monopoly on the means of production again.

This is how people brainwashed by capitalism would use it to deprive us all of the post-scarcity future. We can only hope some more reasonable people also think of making nukes first so we can at least have some mutually assured destruction to preserve the fully automated luxury gay space communism.

I'd use it to make more replicators. Essentially have exponential replicators

First I'm gonna move out of my apartment since there will sure be plenty of geniuses who's gonna produce 1 cubic meter of solid gold, and the building might not be happy about 20-ton blocks appearing out of thin air.

Can... Can I replicate myself?

You mean after gold and diamonds essentially become worthless? A lot of people would definitely use it for medications.

What's the power source?

I tell you right now, it's gonna be all Lego for me.

“Ugh. I’m tired. Work sucked. Computer, make dinner.”

My real answer in anything because you could split a car up over multiple days just like the 3D printed Lamborghini.

Obviously everybody now has high end computers, cameras, a variety of lenses, phones, etc. Foldable Ebikes like the aipas would fit in the space.

1 meter solar panels are a hit but since most batteries and capacitors require materials difficult to handle it becomes highly demanded.

Every political building now has thick blastproof exteriors as making bombs has never been easier, judges live in the courthouse now.

It only takes one person to make 1 cubic meter of black hole to destroy the biosphere by ripping Earth into an acretion disc.

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Well... a turnip, obviously.

I'd replicate some of these new graphics cards that are so hard to find.

Let's be honest, it'll be nothing but dildos and fleshlights for the first year and a half. We'll be swimming in life-like toy dicks before anyone realizes we can do anything else with it.

A few people could easily coordinate to have one person ceeate food, another clothing and essentials, and another could create charged batteries or other energy producing objects. Hell, with a little planning you wouldn't even need to coordinate really.

At that point the world is basically post scarcity and anyone can do anything, kinda like star trek.

Assuming no limitations on what it can make we will also be at the stage of mutually assured destruction since everyone can make a mini nuke each day they don't need something else. This will either discourage violence or wipe out large areas of the planet depending on how fast the technology is distributed, as everyone getting it overnightbwill absolutely lead to a lot of damage in areas where conflict is happening. Not to mention oppressive governments trying to control the populations replicators.

Make something that'll EMP everyone's replicators before people start replicating nukes.

Yes the Max is the current status quo, but given the Min is almost certainly the destruction of the world, so status quo is probably the best we can hope for.

And maybe I'd make a sandwich if there's room for it along with the EMP.

One big sandwich 🥪

Wait. No. TWO big sandwiches 🤩

I’d make my own studio ghibli paintings.

Everyone's talking about money, but I'd try to eliminate costs. First day I make some food and a couple of (full) power banks. Next few days I make some food and solar panels.

I know you say no cars, but I have family I'd trust to put one together. (I'd trust them to take mine apart to work on it.) The only odd part would be body panels? Similarly I'd try to figure out some small housing a cubic meter at a time, but that's probably also a work in progress.

I'd mix in a few personal items over the coming days of course. A new PC, new clothes, and food variety. I don't know how to get rid of Internet and land costs. I wonder if the resulting economic crash might lead to that being figured out for everyone, but I somehow doubt that.