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Originally Posted by Anthony
Yeah, which is blatantly absurd though it might fit the genre.
There's a general problem with 3d printers and the like: you have to choose between cool effects and rational economics.
A cool effect is "My $100,000 robotic minifac can print a $100 device in 1 hour" (this is vanilla UT).
Rational economics looks at that and says "That's not a $100 device, it's a $2 device".
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Real world economics can be irrational if it's shaped by irrational government policies. Just look at prescription drug pricing in the United States. Transhuman Space pretty much postulates that non-nanosocialist governments run their entire economies the way the United States runs its prescription drug market.