Sand and Its Purpose
IllustrationAnalogy★★★SAND is cheap. In fact, at the beach, it’s free! Once it is bagged in order to put it on a playground, it costs to have access to it. Its value goes up.
When sand is taken and bagged, what once was free on the beach now costs twenty- five dollars for a twenty-five-pound bag. Once this same sand is glued to a piece of paper to make sandpaper, its value has gone up again. Now it’s five dollars for a sheet. The value has increased with a change in its purpose.
Now, sand is silicon dioxide. When sand is taken, heated, and processed, it becomes an intricate part of a computer chip that is now worth five hundred dollars.
So what was once free on the beach now has value because it is in a bag, because it is glued on a piece of paper, or because it is in a computer chip that you can hardly afford. The sand is the same, but it has now found increased value in a greater purpose.
The point
Free sand becomes increasingly valuable as it is bagged, glued into sandpaper, or processed into a computer chip, showing how purpose increases worth.