When you start measuring "profit" in the trillions, doesn't the measurement become somewhat meaningless? Like, imagine Planetary Resources or SpaceX gets into this and brings back a haul of metals worth approximately 100 trillion. How devastating would that be to the economy? What would it do to the price of the metals involved?
I'm not saying that bringing this quantity of metal into the economy is a bad thing necessarily, but it would have enough of an impact on the market to make these values completely inaccurate.
I'm not saying that bringing this quantity of metal into the economy is a bad thing necessarily, but it would have enough of an impact on the market to make these values completely inaccurate.