The Value of Natural Resources vs. The Value of a Human

Advances in technology and changes in human population affect the relative value of natural resources to the value of a human.

Here are things that raise the relative value of Natural Resources:

• An increase in population increases the demand for natural resourses.
• An increase in population also intensifies the competition between people, bringing down the value of a person.
• Advances in technology also intensify competition, bringing down the value of a person.
• Advances in technology find new uses for Natural Resources, increasing demand.
  

Here are things that lower the relative value of Natural Resources:

• Advances in technology make usage of resources more efficient.
  
• Advances in technology creates substitutes for Natural Resources.
  
• Advance in technology increases the value of someone effectively educated.
• Advances in technology encourage cooperation, instead of competition.

It may be that effectively educated countries with abundance of Natural Resources will overturn the existing balance of wealth and power.