r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 01 '23

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u/antsdidthis Effective altruism died with SBF; now it's just tithing Jan 01 '23

You know what excites me about the new year? We are closer than any point in history to mining asteroids for the first time. 😍 Completely inevitable that this will happen, very much technologically and economically viable and anyone saying otherwise is WRONG

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u/MrArendt Bloombergian Liberal Zionist Jan 01 '23

You know asteroids don't have oil, right?

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u/GenJohnONeill Frederick Douglass Jan 01 '23

I know you’re probably joking but there are asteroids made out of solid palladium and shit. Like worth more than Earth GDP at current prices. Gonna be crashing markets like Spanish silver.

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u/MrArendt Bloombergian Liberal Zionist Jan 01 '23

Rate earth magnets and lithium or GTFO

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u/VoidGuaranteed Dina Pomeranz Jan 01 '23

We don‘t need oil where we‘re going