Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Why is Everything in China Exploding? - There's a Secret Reason, It's Not Random" video.

  1. ​ @willp5709  The problem isn't rarity. It's getting the stuff to your door. Afghanistan is sitting in trillions of dollars of rare earth minerals. But if you go get them, you'll lose money. Even before you start thinking about how to deal with the Taliban so they'll leave you alone, you'll have to set up extraction in a mountainous region (expensive) and then haul the minerals to the closest sea port (pretty far). We'll never trully run out of stuff. We'll just run out of profitable extraction sites. Because once companies stop being profitable they'll either close or increase prices beyond what you can afford.
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  2. ​ @willp5709  Soup Emporioum debunked the DeBeers stuff.
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