The aluminium in the casing, for all I know, was mined in China.
To mine the aluminum to took drills and excavators.
To build the excavators it took steel.
To make the steel it took iron ore.
The tip's color, we call black but it is really Oven baked black.
I'm not sure where it comes from but I think it is dyed and baked somewhere in Pennsylvania.
That UN specification 1A2/Y36/S Lever-Lock Lid probably comes from South Africa, where the design isn't even native! It was imported from England by some businessmen with the help of the British Government.
The 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile? I haven't the slightest idea where it came from; or the blue paint; or the ink that reads Made in U.S.A.; or the time delay fuse that brings it all together.
Literally thousands of people cooperated to make this Grenade; people who don't speak the same language and who practice different religions; who might hate one-another if they ever met
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When you wheeze and vomit from this Grenade's contents, you are in effect trading a few painful minutes of your time for a few seconds of the time of all those thousands of people.
What brought them together and induced them to cooperate to produce this grenade? It was no commissar sending out orders from some central office. It was the magic of the price system; the impersonal operation of prices that brought them together to make this grenade so that you could have it shot at you in your democratic quest.
That is why the operation of the free market is so essential, not only to promote productive efficiency, but even more to foster harmony and peace among the peoples of the world.
Influences:
I, Pencil My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read
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