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FWIW you could ship a 40ft container of mugs (something like 20,000 of them individually packaged) from china to Seattle, say for a rough cost of about 10c per
by ska 7y ago
FWIW you could ship a 40ft container of mugs (something like 20,000 of them individually packaged) from china to Seattle, say for a rough cost of about 10c per mug.
Bulk freight of nonperishable things is cheap.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI've thought recently that the low cost of container shipping blows the economic theory of comparative advantage out of the water. At least the common and naive one that's based on national/political boarders. Ask why Australia ships iron ore and coal to China to be made into steel.
- mips_avatar 7y agoBut if you listen to the story, these were individually shipped by the postal service, from an ebay seller in china.
- ska 7y agoRight - but what I was pointing out is making that particular scenario more expensive doesn’t shift the overall incentives that much of the COGS are significantly different.