Copper is today seen as a potential strategic asset. As oil was the major raw material in the XXth century, rare metals are more and more strategic today. To this extend it is necessary to see that this asset can be strategic in many ways. It is related to the evolution of new technologies, but can have also a great impact on environment and can be a great tool for alternative capitalism.
First it is more and more a strategic tool if you consider the development of modern capitalism. To this extend, the new technologies like computers, the emergence of artificial intelligence… are tools that allow to metals like copper to have more importance than they use to have. It is necessary to quote that this metal can have great value in the future. To this extend it is necessary to see that copper can be used in civil areas for better connections in computers. In the military they can also be useful to do better missiles or better commended materials. It is the reason why, in the geopolitical context of today, rare metals are detrimental. And even metals like copper can be strategic in many ways. It will affect the car industry as well as the military sector.
Second copper can be a great opportunity for a better sustainable society. To this extend it can be a great asset for the growth of alternative capitalism. For instance electric cars can really benefit from the rise of this asset. As it will be more and more strategic in the new technologies, it can be very useful for devices linked to renewable energies or circular economy. Investing in this asset can be benefiting for many aspects of alternative capitalism and can be a real opportunity of growth. Overall it can be an asset to promote a more efficient alternative capitalism, for internationalized and that is able to compete in many areas from journalism to financial markets. It is the reason why copper can contribute to build a more sustainable economy, more human as well as efficient. In the area of metals it can have an impact as beneficial as crypto currency in the area of money.
It is the reason why copper, which is related to gold and is also considered as giving a ‘temperature’ of the financial markets, can be a discreet but very efficient way to invest in the future of the economy in general, and of alternative capitalism in particular. As the new technologies are accelerating the movement of the mobiliary economy, that began with modern capitalism compared to feudal society, metals like copper can contribute to take into account this reality but making advance causes of the environment or a more sustainable economy. Hegel wrote in the reason in History that the event find a sense in the long run and look chaotic in the short run. His dialectic also tells about the fact, if you think in the middle-long run, there is no limit. It is the reason why copper, in this more and more dematerialized world, can contribute to new realities compliant to what the Hegelian dialectic would have elaborated.