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A matter-transmission invention that can duplicate any nonliving object collapses the established economy by destroying scarcity and undermining shipping and currency. Corporate executives and inventors confront immediate fallout as markets for transported goods vanish, precious materials lose monetary value, and counterfeit production becomes trivial. Efforts focus on finding an intrinsically unduplicable medium, securing self-sufficient manufacturing sites, and devising new service-based exchanges and security measures. The story traces business and scientific maneuvers, grassroots hardship among those without access to duplicators, and the social unrest that follows as communities adapt to sudden abundance paired with financial bankruptcy.
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