• SGforce@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    I’d like to add what I think is probably the biggest benefit. Economies of scale.

    For example, having a mine next to a steel plant next to a manufacturing plant is so much more efficient than shipping the ore to every corner of the earth that it would be impossible to have most of what we have today without doing such things.