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Does savings always equal investment? Are there any cases where savings could be removed from the economic system altogether and break the balance?

Assuming a closed economy, does savings always have to equal investment?

If an individual produces a certain amount of a resource and saves it, that becomes part of the savings of the economy. However, if the resource is subsequently destroyed, it is then removed from the economy. In that case, the savings have increased but the investment hasn’t?

Does destroying a resource count towards investment? Is that an edge case we don’t consider at all? Is this any different from the way investment takes resources away from an individual and puts it into an economy?