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Thread: 3-D printing ends both socialism and capitalism

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    3-D printing ends both socialism and capitalism

    Why do you need money when you can make anything you want and need?



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    Because you can't make anything you need. 3D printing isn't a Star Trek replicator. You're right though that the more 3D printers develop the more they will alter the market in bigger and bigger ways.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dude58677 View Post
    Why do you need money when you can make anything you want and need?
    Because you can't make everything you need and you need money to buy the materials for the printer.
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    Can a 3D printer make another 3D printer?
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    Quote Originally Posted by dude58677 View Post
    Why do you need money when you can make anything you want and need?
    If you get to keep what you print on your 3D printer, it's still capitalism.

    If you don't get to keep what you print on your 3D printer, then it's socialism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    If you get to keep what you print on your 3D printer, it's still capitalism.

    If you don't get to keep what you print on your 3D printer, then it's socialism.
    Ok.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    Can a 3D printer make another 3D printer?
    That could be arranged.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    That could be arranged.

    Would that be incest?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    Would that be incest?
    No, just cloning.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    That could be arranged.
    An error in the program could flood Earth with 3D printers and end life as we know it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    An error in the program could flood Earth with 3D printers and end life as we know it.
    Which is why human interaction with a physical switch must be part of the process.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Which is why human interaction with a physical switch must be part of the process.
    What if the operator gets distracted? - https://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...tonomous-crash

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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    What if the operator gets distracted? - https://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...tonomous-crash
    Design it to fail safe and not produce another printer.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Design it to fail safe and not produce another printer.
    Wishful thinking.



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