It's far worse than that. It's like if Apple didn't have a price for an iPhone, but instead at the register it scanned the package and looked at which factorie

It's far worse than that. It's like if Apple didn't have a price for an iPhone, but instead at the register it scanned the package and looked at which factories each part came from and which assembly-line workers in those factories worked on those specific parts, and which mines the minerals came from, etc. and then charged a different line item for every one of those factors. Sure, the average cost is $1000. But yours might be $5000.