> How much can you benefit from scarcity when you are also obliterating it?
The same way that DeBeers did.
Plus, you could also buy up the manufacturers that actually use this. Platinum price drops, but you're also benefitting from getting it at-cost as you literally drop-ship it to your factory producing catalytic converters and microchips.
Sure you can do that, but the desire for catalytic converters is pretty static. They aren't a luxury good like diamond jewelry. You don't have the option of making them scarce and desirable.
The same way that DeBeers did.
Plus, you could also buy up the manufacturers that actually use this. Platinum price drops, but you're also benefitting from getting it at-cost as you literally drop-ship it to your factory producing catalytic converters and microchips.