prot
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It is a capitalist world and profit is not the ugly word it may be to some. Even charities pay their executives handsomely.
You appear reluctant to address cooper's post, which is odd as you raised the subject. Outline to the forum the business plan. The pitch to the bank manager how to make a viable business out of charging 31 bucks for raw materials costing 30 bucks.
Referring to commodity prices is irrelevant to the end user. In the same way no-one now goes to harvest the wheat.
No-one disputes there is profit to be had in audio electronics but only considering material cost is a superficial analysis that frankly would not even get you far in a school essay.
My measurement stick is decency...capitalism, comunism, imperialism, all those are temporary. But that's philosophy.
I have nothing against people making profits and a decent living. But selling something for 10x the manufacturing price is *not* decent it is roberry. And marketing and advertising can also be decent..noone needs the voodoo fog.
A simple ebay search will show many well built OFC/OCC cables in the $50-100 category and silver cables in the $100-200 category. Guess those vendors went to a diff business school. Cause I highly doubt that anyone is running cable charities.