• Gladaed@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    There is a but of truth in that. But FTL travel may reduce costs due to formerly inefficient due to distance sources becoming plausible. Even if it is not available to the average Joe. A lot of advances in tech reduced the distance of objects e.g. ships and carts.

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      2 months ago

      Yes… and what good it did everyone to reduce the distance of objects… Sometimes distance is good. Gives me time to think about why I’m really going there in the first place.

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        2 months ago

        It enables shipment of fresh vegetables and foreign foodstuffs and massively reduces xenophobia because the others aren’t from a land far far away. Also it enables exploitation of the most efficient ore sources instead of those that are close.