Most of you guys would crap your pants if you actually knew how much stuff costs. Of course you have to factor in R&D, marketing and other overheads into most products, but the actual manufacturing cost for a lot of consumables is a fraction of the retail sale price.
For instance: I can buy a shirt in China for $5, after it passes through about 3 different middlemen all adding their mark up. This is a shirt that sells for over $150 in Canada, so somewhere along the line someone is making some pretty serious cash.
Clothing, jewelry, electronics, it's all the same. They retail for about 200 times the actual cost of manufacture.
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