RE: [ogf-d20-l] Does it make sense for PCs to make things?

[Brad Thompson]

> Martin L. Shoemaker
>
> See my other post: if the materials cost is 1/3 Final, and the wholesale
> cost is 1/2 Final, then I have trouble believing those materials are
> completely from scratch. They're not completely finished, either,
> of course.
> Consider a car: to buy the component parts for a $20K car would cost well
> over $50K; but the cost of raw metal amd fabric and plastic is
> nowhere near
> $6K. I'm figuring that one-third cost covers stuff like standard bar stock
> and wire and moldable plastic that comes prefabricated but needs work, AND
> stuff that comes in ready-made pieces, like circuit boards, solid state
> circuits, etc.

Sure.  Nobody rolls their own aluminum capacitors or goes around melting
sand to make silicon wafers.

-Brad