[ExI] Gold

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Wed May 29 21:29:48 UTC 2013


On May 29, 2013 1:49 PM, "Mirco Romanato" <painlord2k at libero.it> wrote:
> Il 29/05/2013 22:07, Adrian Tymes ha scritto:
> > Not necessarily.  They may have a large ratio, but
> > let us say it costs $10,000 to lift a human and tools
> > to do a job, but only $1 to lift a robot and tools.
> > That's a 10,000:1 difference - massive indeed - but
> > if designing and building that robot costs $20,000
> > - quite plausible in some cases - while the human
> > already has the necessary tools, the human is
> > cheaper.
>
> Or just the cost become negligible compared to the the wealth available.

Exactly.  :)
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