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Well thats the issue. The whole suite of dependencies needs to be moved back, except where impossible - i.e. minerals etc. Having moved all of this outside the
by yrgulation 4y ago
Well thats the issue. The whole suite of dependencies needs to be moved back, except where impossible - i.e. minerals etc.
Having moved all of this outside the free world we slowed down progress in our own countries. Imagine being forced to come up with cheaper alternatives at home where we’d be with robotics, automation and space mining today. Instead we finance countries that seek to challenge us.
- scarface74 4y agoWhat good does it do to move all of the dependencies except for the most important foundational dependencies?
- remarkEon 4y agoIs your assumption here that all minerals are distributed equally, or equally accessible?
- scarface74 4y agoI am saying just the opposite. Most of the easily accessible “rare minerals” are in countries that aren’t our allies.
- yrgulation 4y agoBecause we have no option. Such resources are limited. We either destroy our own environment - assuming it holds such resources - suck up or expand outwards. I’d choose the latter but it seems our collective culture is weak and unable to sustain radical positive transformation. The industrial revolution couldn't take place today even if we wanted, let alone ambitious resource extraction projects.