# A proper market price to pay for teleportation ability

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-proper-market-price-to-pay-for-teleportation-ability/746450>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 18, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-proper-market-price-to-pay-for-teleportation-ability/746450 "2016-02-18T16:13:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-proper-market-price-to-pay-for-teleportation-ability/746450/21 "2016-02-19T18:57:00Z")

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Hmmm does the teleporter work by copying me and “pasting” me somewhere else? Is there some possibility of there then becoming 2 mes?

If so, it could copy and paste itself, and making it might be essentially free.

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