How do they make things this small and still be inexpensive?

[the watcher]

This is a 2 tube crimp sleeve for making saltwater fishing rigs, and I have some even smaller. A whole box of 50 costs like $8. And those little screws in cell phones and computers, it just baffles me how it can be profitable.

 

[DGS49]

It's incomprehensible. Most people take for granted some amazing things. As George Will pointed out many decades ago, not one person in the world has the knowledge and skills to MAKE A PENCIL…something that we use without even thinking about it.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

What gets me is how they literally pay PENNIES for stuff like cereal, bread, soda, chips, candy, canned veggies, etc...........and are allowed to charge 2,000% overkill for it!!!!

 

[the watcher]

I remember when Krushchev visited Kennedy in Washington and they went to a grocery store. Nekita saw all the food available and said how can any nation prevail against people that can wrap each slice of cheese and put it on the shelves for the people.