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> "somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote:
> > "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
> > news:4a15b7a8@news.povray.org...
> > >   How much does it cost to create one CD of music?
> >
> > As much as it costs to create one CD of software. Pennies. If AutoCAD
> > can
> > sell one CD for several thousand dollars, why cannot a music CD be
> > sold for
> > $14.95 ?

> Well, they can somehow afford to sell it at a third of the price in
> other countries. Yes, the same CD. I was in Spain and I saw CDs at ?30
> that cost $30 here in Argentina.

And the average hourly wage in Spain may well be  ?30 when it's $30 in
Argentina. Gasoline may cost three times in UK than it does in US... etc...
etc. It's not just CDs. All consumer goods as well as salaries vary
considerably across borders. Just because a vendor can afford to sell a
product cheap in some country, or that an employer can afford to pay higher
wages in another doesn't mean that the same pricing would work everywhere
for everyone. Maybe one day, but global economy is far from being that
homogenized so far.

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