Apply exponentials to anything without limit, and you'll get absurdity. Mining anything in space is ridiculously difficult. The only asteroid mining companies

Apply exponentials to anything without limit, and you'll get absurdity. Mining anything in space is ridiculously difficult. The only asteroid mining companies basically stalled out. There's no point to this right now. Earth has much richer reserves of basically everything. The only point to space mining is if people want to live out there for their own reasons. Mining for export would only be a minor component of that.