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ELI5: What happens when there is substantially more value in commodities than there is in actual currency?

I've read a fair number of articles recently about how various nations/companies are thinking about mining asteroids because there are quadrillions of dollars of resources on them.

How would our economy even interact with value on that scale when we don't have nearly enough free-flowing currency for anyone to buy a meaningful percentage of it?
gpt
Supply and Demand

Adding that much raw material to an economy would drive costs down. So a material that costs $50 a pound could get driven down to pennies an ounce.

So that figure of a Quadrillion dollars would drop significantly.

You also have to consider what are we going to do with all that raw material?

Sure it's great to have an unlimited supply of Lithium for example, but we can only manufacture/need so many batteries.