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Cost probably would depend on the 'moat', i.e. how easy is it for another player to enter the market. On the other hand, we may get a kind of OPEC of asteroid
by ant6n 10y ago
Cost probably would depend on the 'moat', i.e. how easy is it for another player to enter the market.
On the other hand, we may get a kind of OPEC of asteroid miners.
- stale2002 10y agoThe problem with cartels like this is that all it takes is a single person to break to cartel, for the whole thing to come crashing down. Someone might even do it as a charity operation.
- xenobioticants 10y agoConsidering that bringing the resources to Earth would still require landing rights, I'd imagine such a cartel would be easy to break by the world's governments.
- clort 10y agoand considering that if the cartel was blocking you, but you had a few hundred thousand tons of metal in orbit.. you could just send down a bit for free..
- kristianp 10y agoGovernments these days compete with each other to pander to corporations. The promise of a few jobs and a few political donations is enough to get a government to do just about anything you want.
- stale2002 10y agoYes, you are right. And these governments compete with each other. For every government supporting cartels there will be a dozen trying to break them, because of how much money you can make by breaking a cartel. Greed still wins, for the betterment of humans.
- geon 10y agoNot in the diamond business. A player who won't conform is simply crushed.
- geon 10y agoNot in the diamond business. A player who won't conform is simply crushed.