Socioeconomic and scientific implications of the revealed technologies

[+Oltux72 he/him]

• So dimensional travel does make crime pay again. They have people who started a zombie apocalypse for fun.
• The moral depravity aspect of interdimensional tourism exists. They conquer countries for fun. Better not discuss?
• It does boost the market for personal combat and language instruction, albeit to a minor degree. Cartels existed anyway.

We got important information about the economics. The actual transfer once you have established a connection is basically free.

The big difference is that dimensions exist in a hierarchy and you cannot transfer stuff "up". What does that mean?
In addition dimensions very like our Earth are rare and expensive, thus not available to the general public. That surely impacts tourism.

Nevertheless I think we can find economic uses for interdimensional travel under the revealed constraints:

• tourism
• exportable services - you want to film "Riding on Smilodontes". No need for CGI. (Though you may need a good medical team, even if you have nanites.)
• exportable labor - you cannot bring back stuff. But you can bring back information. Outsourcing R & D to another dimension is possible.
• dumping - you have this incredibly dangerous waste? No problem, we have an Earth devoid of most higher life forms after a major impact. Dig a hole and dump it in.
• marooning - exile as a form of criminal punishment has just become viable again
• local services - why retire to Florida, if you can retire to another planet's Tahiti where the sl... , servants, I meant servants, are cheap?
• exportable resources - you cannot take stuff back, but again information is possible. You can isolate new antibiotics from plants and fungi in unspoiled jungles and even megafauna
  Or - more sinister - you need a new bioweapon? We have this dimension nobody else wants ...
• true colonialism - you have useless hungry masses in need of land to farm? Problem solved.