&gt; Dollar, yen, euro, bitcoin(!) have no direct relation to resources.<p>Made up numbers (ie the value of the dollar, bitcoin, etc) need to be reconciled at some point. The value doesn&#x27;t come from nowhere. If the bitcoin value GOES UP it&#x27;s because people are putting money into it. The price doesn&#x27;t go down when people buy it, it goes up. That&#x27;s a currency exchange, it&#x27;s not creating value from nothing.<p>That&#x27;s what I&#x27;m referring to as a &quot;resource.&quot; Not just iron or silicon.<p>The entire 2008 crash happened because people were trying to create massive amounts of value from nothing.<p>The idea that any system needs resources to grow isn&#x27;t an opinion, it&#x27;s a universal constant.