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Old 09-18-2013, 11:30 AM   #42
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Default Re: Nanofabricators, DRM and Forced Scarcity

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Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha View Post
An outlay of $150k will cost you as a capital expenditure, on top of the interest you have to pay on that money.

I'd be very surprised if you could keep it to just $600 a month, but even so it'd take you 66 months, not 50, at which point you'd have the bioroid/robot paid off and could begin paying for the capital expenditure.
You seem to be assuming a poor person borrowing money for this. I'm envisioning a corp choosing whether to invest into something expecting 10-20% annual return on investment, or replacing some of its workers for a 24% annual return on investment (expressed as salary savings).

Also, why would a bioroid upkeep be more expensive than a human upkeep? The whole reason behind building bioroids and not using AIs+cybershells is that they're logistically cheap by comparison.

Also, the $3,600/mo number is for an average job, for which you can probably use a more human-like model (cost equal or slightly above $50k, e.g. a Helot, or an Alpha-equivalent); you can probably use a $150k-ish model for replacing more high-salary professionals, such as Nurse (BIO207, Comfortable), Hazmat Specialist (TS138, Comfortable), or even a Nanotechnologist (TS138, Wealthy).
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