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It isn't just 'print whatever the consumer needs'. It's - Dig it out of the ground - process it - Fabricate the unprintable bits - Store all of this - Pri
by 2stop 13y ago
It isn't just 'print whatever the consumer needs'. It's
- Dig it out of the ground
- process it
- Fabricate the unprintable bits
- Store all of this
- Print whatever the consumer needs in less time than it takes to drink a coffee.
So unless this make believe "shop" is fronted onto a processing/fabrication plant, which is itself, fronted on a magical mine that you can dig up any resource you like. Your scenario can never happen.*
* Or we could invent teleportation.
- mitochondrion 13y agoYes, but no. Yes, there's a ton of raw resource extraction, processing, and transport. But no, because a Nissan Altima or Apple Macbook (or Moto X!) are not commodities in the same way that gold or lumber or silicon are. There's a reason that the Nissan Altima was the sixth best-selling car last year. I don't purport to know what that reason is, but it's not because it's comprised of raw materials any different from any other car.
- 2stop 13y agoI'm not sure what you're responding to. You can't print big things in a street shop because big things require big raw materials, and complex fabrications. This has nothing to do with commodities, Nissan, Apple or Motorola, this is pointing out that the GP forgot to consider the serious amount of inventory required to have 'on-demand' production available INSIDE a consumer shop.