[dirkgently]

One of the biggest problems with this forum is very narrow minded view of things looking through a limited binoculars of a capitalist culture when everything has to boil down to profit in pure money terms.

What this guy is achieving is more than bringing down the price.

The job he is creating for these women is providing incalculable benefit to themselves, their families, their children and is adding more to the society (which operates on a completely different value system than your own) that can not be calculated in 20 pause less per pad.

Also, you mentioned the scale of economy, but didn't see that he achieved this price reduction without mass scale production which in itself is a big achievement.

Without going in much details, I'd say the capitalist approach does not always benefit the society. I know everybody here is a superstar techie working on the next big social success to allow people do more fluff, other people in other worlds may have different priorities.

[jhatax]

"I don't consider the bloody ROI." - Tim Cook [1]

1: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-reje...

[gdewilde]

"When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind," he said, "I don't consider the bloody ROI."