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And also, a lot of it is low volume stuff, and fixed costs in manufacturing are huge. The reason the tools you buy at the home improvement store are cheap is b
by kube-system 3y ago
And also, a lot of it is low volume stuff, and fixed costs in manufacturing are huge. The reason the tools you buy at the home improvement store are cheap is because the fixed costs are spread out over thousands to millions of units. Design/labor/fixturing/tooling/etc can be brutal for low volumes.
If you want to build a single Lego, the tooling could cost you hundreds of thousand of dollars.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoYou think a Lego piece is expensive, you should see the total capital outlay required to make an apple pie from scratch!
- em-bee 3y agodetails on the apple pie here: https://recursiverecipes.schollz.com/recipe/apple-pie?amount=1&timelimit=4210382&ingredientsToBuild= https://recursiverecipes.schollz.com/recipe/apple-pie?amount... discussion of that site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37885636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37885636
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoStore-bought soil?! Granny Sagan would have conniptions!
- kridsdale3 3y agoOne iPhone 16 is Five Billion Dollars. 50 million iPhones 16 can be made for $200 each.