"Its like you are thirsty so you build an intercontinental jet plane from scratch using parts from around your house to fly to Japan to steal a single Coke from a 7-11."

The flaw in this analogy is that the you with these capabilities has different, and possibly incomprehensible desires, compared to the you who wants a Coke.

The natives of Central America and Mexico were not aware of how excited those Spaniards would be about Gold and Silver.