Bramble Thorn
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"Because it is profligate and unnecessary. Because it adds structural vulnerability. Because it takes a scarce resource and wastes it."
Ok, someone has to play the opposition here.
I recently saw a commercial for aluminum cups as a green alternative to plastic. Because even though costly to condense from the raw ore, once made it is easily to recycle and use again and again and again.
Personally I think that argument is rather shit because western civilisation can be a shitty thing full of shitty people, and nearly all of those metal cups are going to be thrown into the regular trash same as the plastic ones, and current metal soda cans are. But the idea is fine in principle, and is true for larger things like metal in cars.
Using Nth metal in the capital buildings doesn't consume it or waste it, stockpiles it. In a place that is already being heavily guarded, in manner that makes it rather obvious if someone does try to purloin the metal clandestinely, and in such a way that future generation could dip into the stockpile, but would be politically disincentivized from doing outside an actual dire need.