Incorruptible

Price controls! Un-corruptable AIs price all goods and services with a dynamic model based on inherent worth, not supply/demand worth, putting an end to inflation. Then the world of new billionaires would become wealthy in purchasing power that would not diminish. Talk about a new kind of economy! That’s the path to Iain N. Bank’s post-shortage Culture,

Isn’t every d**k already a billionaire?

E X A C T LY !

I N E R T I A ?

Good for startrek movies
However fun to read.

Glad I read all the comments, the last one was the most interesting. Thanks !

SpaceX is not sleeping to make sure we can mine space rocks one day. They got the billions already and trillion are approachings. With so much wealth, I don’t think you would just want to sleep and party. I think you would do what you want when you were just 10 years old.

With all the technology maturing plus new ones and AI, who knows what we’ll be capable of even in 20 years.

But mass matters… a lot. And an astroid that size and composition would have a great deal of mass.

Its a intresting point of wiew, how the wealth of mankind is managed. Some people are filthy rich, and other have nothing. As every newborn child in all states got a huge goverment debt, they have less than nothing. The derivates of the world is astimates to 1,2 quadrillion dollars. But this is only in holding companies balance sheets, with no employment ot turnover. This wealth is not benefitting any of manking, cause its only by debt you get it back to people. Still all wealth is earned by hundred of generations, mostly in slavery conditions. It takes some 3800 years to give back this “money” if you give everyone 1000 dollars every second. Its a good question, why have this, maybe allready millions of holding companies, to avoid taxes and wealth for common people. Why destroy earth and all habitats for money?

But mass does. Inertia.

All jokes aside, it is pretty neat that this could possibly be a planetary core

It could be kept rare like the diamond industry does with diamonds.

There’s a more fundamental reason why a giant asteroid wouldn’t make the world fabulously rich. It’s because wealth mostly doesn’t come from big hunks of metal. It comes from the ability to create things that satisfy human needs.
A steel factory represents real wealth, because you can use it to make parts for cars, buildings and so on.

Agreed. And then the economic fall out to the current industry we have in place. And then there is the relevancy of it all…if everyone was given $1.2 billion, disposal income would not differ than now due to price increases on other commodities due to the new supply of wealth and greater demand. Nice to dream about i guess.

But weight doesn’t matter in space…

I agree. I think you are academically inclined

We got the tech to check it out (at little extra cost to it’s original mission… based on poss value… check it… no brainer.

We may soon have the tech to bump it our way.

Value… whatevs we all do with it : )

….an asteroid with a rare amount of metal…..

I object to “finds.” We definitely did not *find* it recently.