It’ll be great on the supply chain, it’ll be really bad for anybody that makes money on the supply chain.
We’ve never been here before. We’ve gone through major technological changes, but the previous tech changes creates new jobs, new things for people to do. 3D printers have the potential to render the entire retail sector obsolete while not actually giving us something new to do.
There has to be a customer base with the ability to purchase. So many disruptive changes coming, and so many of them will reduce employment. It’s very unsettling.
I disagree. We’ll end up with new markets and custom manufactured stuff rather than one size fits all junk shipped halfway across the world. Imagine buying custom shoes in your neighborhood for roughly the same price as you would get them for mass produced stuff at the mall.