> How much can you benefit from scarcity when you are also obliterating it? If you're just selling the minerals that might be the case. If you also have a vert

> How much can you benefit from scarcity when you are also obliterating it? If you're just selling the minerals that might be the case. If you also have a vertically integrated company that produces things that use a lot of minerals (batteries), you might just be able to use all these things yourself, and sell them for more than the base cost of the material.