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Cal Beisner found that when floppy computer discs were around that also happened to have word processors on them, they were selling for around $450. These floppy discs embodied only ONE CENT’s worth of petroleum and sand.

Similarly, the value of extracted resources as a share of US GNP in 1890 was aboit 50%. Today that is less than 4%.

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