It's how we make sure we retain poverty as a concept. Obviously valuation of an asteroid is currently pointless, but the idea of eliminating scarcity is more of a political issue than a resource one.

Yeah really. Look at how the Spanish took so much gold from south America that their economy tanked.

It's impossible to assess the worth of a commodity in terms of its scarcity without the extraplanitary cache added in.

Like the price of very rare baseball card would come down a bit if a couple of thousand of that card where discovered.