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Re:Adam Smith and the Pin Factory by davidw on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:03PM (#21848155)
It's almost as if... both have a role to play. It's a wonderful illustration of how disparate people come together to produce something.

At the same time, it's also nice to have some rules and regulations and people who enforce them so that, say, one of the suppliers tries to start using toxic ingredients in the pencil's paint, and gets thrown in jail for it.

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Re:Adam Smith and the Pin Factory by roenxi on Friday December 20, 2019 @10:42PM (#21849444)
I was about to write a short post about the lead that I assumed was in early lead pencils, but it turns out [0] that there never was any lead in lead pencils and they are humorously mis-named.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil#Discovery_of_graphite_d...

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