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Re:Economic costs of war by Grakel on Monday August 16, 2021 @07:59PM (#28204458)
There's no shortage of metal, that's the point. Open your mind.
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Re:Economic costs of war by stevenhuang on Monday August 16, 2021 @08:50PM (#28204821)
There is an effective shortage of resources since the capacity to mine for them is not infinite, and production cannot meet demands.
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Re:Economic costs of war by AnimalMuppet on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:57PM (#28205681)
And the metal in space doesn't help us with our current technology. Obviously.

"We can't have a metal shortage because there's lots of metal in space" is not the most coherent argument I've heard today...

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Re:Economic costs of war by Grakel on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @08:56AM (#28209324)
What I originally said was there's no metal shortage, only the price of metal. We'll be mining the solar system long before we run out of metal on earth. For aluminum, for instance, there's an insane amount in the Earth's crust.
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Re:Economic costs of war by stevenhuang on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:59PM (#28216192)
Supply and demand informs price. Not the other way around. That's why your argument makes no sense.
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