[JohnMakin]

Let’s do a thought experiment. let’s say you find and can mine an asteroid full of rare earth minerals worth a quadrillion dollars, and you then flood the market with your yield. is this asteroid’s yield still worth a quadrillion dollars?

[burnerRhodov3]

yeah, you hoard it like debiers and use it to build the city of elon, mega factories, or a giant platnium statue of trump to gain politcal favor. You def don't dump it on the market.

But, here's what you'd really do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572319

[SecretDreams]

How dare you ~ the OP just now reading your thought experiment.