"I exchange the drilling rights in exchange for 1% of the extracted revenue, making me rich enough to, say, move to Beverley Hills, was I really doing something

"I exchange the drilling rights in exchange for 1% of the extracted revenue, making me rich enough to, say, move to Beverley Hills, was I really doing something fantastically productive?" To be fair, Jed did discover the oil himself, so he could be said to have contributed productively to the economy. We'd have to subtract the contribution the missed rabbit would have made though.