This makes Sense?

Earlier this weekend I purchased a new knife.
That is a pleasurable experience.
It's  a tool. One that could get a fair bit of use. Though I do have 6 other knives (just in the kitchen come to think on it) that I keep in circulation, and sharpened, and use. Now I have 7.

The new one is a clever. A Butcher's Cleaver the packaging proclaimed.
Plenty of substance and heft.
A classic profile and silhouette, and a nicely ground edge.

The handle at first glance is a bit too modern.
It has a synthetic ( that is man made material) handle in a tolerable grey blue colour pattern.
The blue, mostly to the centre of the handle face, has some protruding dimples to facilitate grip, which probably will help.

Other good news: it takes a keen edge.
I sharpened it a little with a small tool, and the result was more than satisfactory.

So overall I am pleased with the exercise of the acquisition, and early use.

But this materialism comes at a cost, or price.
What cost?
Well there is the interesting point.
Two bucks. Plus the guv vigorish at 15 points.

And candidly, that don't make too much sense.
The two buck price I mean.
It hardly seems enough.
How do they ( all the theys) do it ??

The sheer number of people directly involved in the creation and sale of the product,
including those that made or sourced the materials, and transported them, and packed them and shipped them, and stored them, and marketed them, and cashed you out -
wow, that's a lot of folk.

Then think of the transportation angle - how far all of the materials traveled to end up at one spot eventually represented by the location of the final product at point of sale.

Petroleum compounds from subterranean depths, to refineries, and plastic makers, and maybe latex from rubber trees, and then the rocks also from deep, to smelters and refineries, and steel makers, and on and on. Then pause.

And reflect on the fact that the assembly took place half a world away.The Middle Kingdom as they call themselves:China.

Then they ship it to a dollar store in Sudbury.
And then I take it to its new home.