> The metals thing is a problem the markets will solve because the tech is largely solved. There's lots of things the markets haven't "solved". Also, getting

> The metals thing is a problem the markets will solve because the tech is largely solved. There's lots of things the markets haven't "solved". Also, getting a lot more nasty things out of the Earth will also most probably mean more dead kids in the mines of Africa, but I'm sure the market won't advertise that. At least the Saudis don't directly kill kids in their oil-fields explorations (they kill them only indirectly in Yemen, with the guns they've purchased from the West using the money they got from the oil-fields).