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You know how they apparently can't make new steel anymore in the UK? What if that just keeps happening until steel is a consumer luxury item, an heirloom?

I know it's unrealistic but it's a funny thought. More likely people would just start taking steel off stuff to do their own things with.

At this point I half expect some sudden and byzantine micro market collapse to reveal that all the steel recycling plants in the country were at the end of a very long speculative financial chain that ended in Sharper Image, and only now has inertia come to claim them.