I was thinking the other day about effort and what makes something worth the effort it takes to produce. Where is the cutoff point when somehting is just to much of a pain in the ass to be worth the effort. The effort is usually directly proportional to the price. Then i was thinking about screws. Screws are pretty simple items. people pretty much take screws for granted, but there are like billions and billions of screws holding shit together on this planet. I'm not sure how they make all those screws, i have an idea, but if i had to make one single screw right now, i couldn't do it. not a screw i'd put any faith in anyway. however if you go to the hardware store to buy a box of say, one hundred screws, the price is relatively low.
what i'm getting at is that the effort to produce screws can't be very high because the price is so low and dammit in the end motherfuckers need screws.
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