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Right and for difficult to obtain materials a socialist model would encourage innovation for techniques that would reduce sample size needed for analysis or encourage the development of further synathsizing equipment, a la star trek.
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No because if a profit driven research institution can take all the resources why waste money on material sustainability based research when they can increase net profit.
Why would a profit driven research industry even attempt to develop something like a material synthesizer, something that destroys the flimsy scarcity arguement. Look at how long the knowledge of workable 3d printers was supressed.
