• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I think if mining economy worked like that, Saudi Arabia would have gone bankrupt by cratering the price of oil.

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      8 months ago

      Oil jas constant demand and the Saudis have so much of it that it costs them very little to drill for it and store it. And digging a new well doesn’t immediately flood the market with 4x the annual production of oil.

      I’m not arguing against asteroid mining. I am saying that it is fundamentally impossible under our current capitalist system. That’s why there has been zero advances in the concept in iver a decade.

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        8 months ago

        They don’t have to sell all the platinum immediately. Just like DeBeers has mountains of diamonds they keep locked up in warehouses to keep the price controlled.