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LuciferSage posted...

and to be clear, i didn't mean the American economy, i meant the world economy. Gold, Diamonds, Titanium, Uranium, Rare earth metals, Copper, Aluminum, Iron...

bring down one rock made of the stuff and it all becomes worthless as a commodity.

if asteroid mining truly becomes a thing, we really will have to come up with a new economic system from scratch.

Presuming, of course, it doesn't cost so much to access those resources that turning a profit becomes impossible, particularly considering the extreme price crash their mere availability would cause. In some ways, the concept capitalisms itself to death before it even gets off the ground.

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