Why You Don't Own a 3D Printer

This pyramid, which is now appeared in two videos, represents the cup half full side. I 3D printed it. These things have come a long way since I last had one about ten years ago, which was just a couple of years after the 3D printing bubble had popped. In a spectacular way, companies that made these printers had soared. We're going to 3D print everything people said. Everyone will have one in their home. And of course, that didn't happen.

Why exactly didn't that happen? One of, if not the biggest reason. How many people do you know that can design in 3D space? Even something as simple as this hook, it slides on and off my desk. It holds my backpack. This is not that important. It's very useful to me. I stopped ripping my clothes on the nail it replaced, but I can't dedicate time to go back. Remember how and figure out how to design this kind of thing.

Look at how simple this is. And I kid you not, it would have taken me a day to design this. Someone who has experience with CAD. All the CAD people out there are like a day. Yes, for me and at least a day for the pyramid. It's not the same as opening up Photoshop. There are dedicated programs you have to know file format specific techniques for 3D printing. And the program I used to use was bought by another company.

Now it's $1,000 a year. No thank you. Could I learn a new one? Sure. But to get this geometry just right perfectly to scale smooth. That would have taken more time than I can justify in a randomly hit me one day. I cannot remember how it crossed my mind. The file the design program spit out. It's just code. The 3D printer reads it like instructions and executes. It's not that different from a web browser. That seemed like something that Codex or Claw could help with. couple prompts, maybe 30 minutes of time between design, setup and the printer just ran and did its thing.

This thing came out. I'm looking at. I'm like, this is awesome. Whose job got taken by this? Nobody's there is no hierarchy of needs. Pyramid designer would have just figured something else out for these two videos, but this made both of them better. This is what the scene called for. The formal name for this concept is competing against non consumption. When a person can't find a solution that actually satisfies the requirements of the job, and they opt to do nothing, instead. Let's come back to that census list of jobs for a second.