It's an observable phenomenon that happens with billions of items every day.
If something is too scarce or difficult to bring to market, it will be reflected in its price. The way supply and demand works is if the price is too high demand goes down. If no one can afford to buy something the demand will be zero. If the price is too low demand will increase but supply will eventually go down if there is little or no profit in it. This is not only empirical it is intuitive.
I imagine strawberries could be grown in the southern hemisphere in December, or in green houses, but the price would be higher because of the increased costs to bring it to your local market. Probably too high to make it worth a food market's effort to sell them. Or you could get frozen strawberries cheaper I would think.
We can't get cheap He3 from the moon. But if someone where willing to pay a company a profit to bring it to market then it would get done.
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That's like saying water doesn't flow downhill
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