Read something once about cost per unit in car manufacture. The bean
counters, who are the real problem not the engineers (mainly), look not at
what it will cost per unit but what it will cost per production run. A $5
increase per unit with a 200,000 production run is $1,000,000. When a
bean counter sees numbers like that their beady little eyes roll back in
their tiny little skulls and they faint. Something to do with certified
public accountancy as the lads in Monty Python used to say. They don't
seem to understand that people will pay for something they want, look at
all the crap that's being foisted on us that we neither want or need.
Just my nickels worth (inflation ya know)
Larry
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