Why?

We traded energy cost for time when we stopped walking, and replaced it with an animal and a cart, and again with cars, and airplanes. We save time, but the energy input is greater.

Who’s to say that teleportation wouldn’t be a trade off between 5x the energy to take a jet, but instantaneous?

Digital goods aren’t physical; teleportation is physical.

This really depends.

Teleportation consists of three main phases:

• scanning/deconstruction
• sending
• reconstruction

If the deconstruction and/or reconstruction phases cost a ton of energy, it doesn't matter if the sending phase has a high energy bill.

But since you have transmit data on each atom, you will have huge amounts of data to send.

For example, 1kg of carbon has about 5*10^25 atoms. Humans aren't made entirely of carbon, but the rough order of magnitude will be similar. Let's go with a 70kg human and we end up with roughly 10^27 atoms.

Let's say we have good compression techniques and a single byte is enough to store all data of one atom. That means, we need to send about 10^28 bits of data.

In September 2023 the total bandwith of the global internet was about 1.2 Pbps, or 10^15 bits per second.

So to transmit a single human being with the speed of the entire global internet combined it would take 10^13 seconds or about 300 000 years. I think that kind of data transmission could cost a little bit of money.

Compare that to the cost of shipping 70kg of human being anywhere on the planet. By plane, it will cost in the order of a few thousand Euros and it will take one day, two at most, not 300 000 years.

You can't possibly know that. What if moving someone instantaneously costs the same amount of energy as moving it through 3d space?

Teleportation is a made up technology so the rules around it are made up. But if we set some basic rules for it that are at least somewhat ground in science fiction.

You will probably need a receiving pad for the teleported items to arrive to as the earth is constantly moving through space so you need to anchor the teleporting location, that will probably be expensive

In order to follow the first law of thermodynamics where energy has to be conserved at the minimum the energy required for moving the goods will have to be used by the transporter and probably with some amount of inefficiency so if we say it takes the same amount of energy as it currently cost but with less labor and less warehouses it can easily cost several dollars and would scale based on distance

So you would probably be responsible for paying those energy costs and the teleporter pad costs