332 | How the Congo's Cobalt Fuels Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Modern-Day Slavery with Siddharth Kara
The Realignment
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Is Cobalt Unique in Comparative to All Other Resources?
There's an essential monopoly operationally on this resource to like the Congolese state is like near zero when it comes to state capacity. I guess what I'm kind of trying to ask you is, if we're talking about profit incentives and like massive corporations who have stockholders and everything like that, it seems like your incentive would always be to raise to the raise to the bottom. So why is cobalt unique in comparison to all other resources? Why wouldn't I think extend to this level of depravity almost?
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