So much of the conversation is about profit and economic viability of landing raw materials on Earth under current market conditions... While I don't begrudge t

So much of the conversation is about profit and economic viability of landing raw materials on Earth under current market conditions... While I don't begrudge that, I think the true game changer for orbital mining is how greater material availability can open brand new frontiers, in other words, make the pie larger, not just compete and change the balance of the existing pie. I long for arcologies, orbital elevators, orbital habitats. Things that only become truly possible with automated manufacturing and a plunging of energy and material costs by orders of magnitude.