| having some defects doesn't make the process "unrefined." We're usually talking a higher than 95% success rate and the machines are usually retooled if a sample leads to the suspicion that quality control has fallen below 95%. A small operation could never produce the numbers that big companies do while maintaining that level of quality. But even 4% wrong in a thousand pieces is 40 bad products hitting the market. So the process is quite refined, it's just that the numbers are so large that we're bound to notice more of their problems than those from a smaller company that produces a tenth (or less) of the quantity.
 I love elitists who aren't really elite in any way... they amuse me greatly. |
