When I say, no, its really just our ability to buy things.

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Our capitalist system is based on the idea of an overall return on our assets: We buy things, then reconfigure, invent, invest, and redeploy them in ways that are more positive for the world.

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An unintended consequence is that we go out into the world market to buy the things we need while locking up our own raw materials.

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