I don’t think immigration borders would be the main issue. It’s pretty easy to get into most countries for the price of a return plane ticket, and then you just don’t leave. Unless teleportation was much cheaper and more convenient it wouldn’t change much. I think it would have an impact on customs and smuggling. Pretty easy to bring anything to anywhere without ant chance of interception.
But the biggest shift would be security. Presuming anyone could just make anything appear anywhere, I think the rich and powerful would be very afraid. If teleporting a homemade bomb into someone’s palatial mcmansion was as easy as 3d printing a gun then people wouldn’t have to even go full Luigi to terrorise those people. Remember the anthrax scare? Posting poison is one thing, but just making clouds of it appear in bedrooms or offices with destinctive oval-shapes, would be quite a different level.
Why single out the rich? I know that Lemmy users specifically like to drool at the thought of killing rich people, but someone with a bomb and the ability to teleport can put it literally anywhere.
For sure. But most people aren’t well known enough to have strangers murder them. If someone wanted to put a bomb in my house they could, I don’t have any security or cameras, I don’t even lock the door that often. But why would they care?
But yeah, it’s wouldn’t just be the rich, anyone famous enough to be known and awful (or just unlucky) enough to make someone genuinely wish them dead would be at risk. ‘ordinary’ people rarely have the power or influence to piss someone off enough to murder them. Although I’m sure the number of mysterious deaths of neighbours and exlovers etc would go up.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Immigration? Hah! Murder! Theft. But mostly murder. Musk would already be gone, Trump too. Putin. It would practically be a death sentance to be a world leader.
I don’t think immigration borders would be the main issue. It’s pretty easy to get into most countries for the price of a return plane ticket, and then you just don’t leave. Unless teleportation was much cheaper and more convenient it wouldn’t change much. I think it would have an impact on customs and smuggling. Pretty easy to bring anything to anywhere without ant chance of interception.
But the biggest shift would be security. Presuming anyone could just make anything appear anywhere, I think the rich and powerful would be very afraid. If teleporting a homemade bomb into someone’s palatial mcmansion was as easy as 3d printing a gun then people wouldn’t have to even go full Luigi to terrorise those people. Remember the anthrax scare? Posting poison is one thing, but just making clouds of it appear in bedrooms or offices with destinctive oval-shapes, would be quite a different level.
Why single out the rich? I know that Lemmy users specifically like to drool at the thought of killing rich people, but someone with a bomb and the ability to teleport can put it literally anywhere.
For sure. But most people aren’t well known enough to have strangers murder them. If someone wanted to put a bomb in my house they could, I don’t have any security or cameras, I don’t even lock the door that often. But why would they care?
But yeah, it’s wouldn’t just be the rich, anyone famous enough to be known and awful (or just unlucky) enough to make someone genuinely wish them dead would be at risk. ‘ordinary’ people rarely have the power or influence to piss someone off enough to murder them. Although I’m sure the number of mysterious deaths of neighbours and exlovers etc would go up.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Immigration? Hah! Murder! Theft. But mostly murder. Musk would already be gone, Trump too. Putin. It would practically be a death sentance to be a world leader.