China frictions steer electric automakers away from rare earth magnets, page-122

Lamentably correct.

It's the oil curse (with us it's the mineral curse) that encourages the population to sit back and navel-gaze about which toilets trans people should use while the mineral wealth flows in.

We teach our kids how to be employed as equal opportunity consultants for boofhead councils and teach foreign students to be engineers.

We can only hope that IO collapses completely and Twiggy, Miss Piggy and our other mining oligarchs have to find something more productive to do.

Maybe only when our budgetary position becomes completely untenable we'll collectively get off our collective purulent arses and turn or lithium into batteries and our RE into magnets.

If not for us, for our kids.