Unfortunately, happiness is short-lived. Although the annual consumption of ballpoint pen refills is an astronomical figure, the demand for a small pen tip ball is not large, and 1,000 tons a year is enough.

Taigang's production lines were running at full capacity, and within a few days they produced enough nib steel to last the world for several years.

Do you feel proud?

Actually, it is not.

What does it mean to produce enough nib steel for the whole world to use for several years in just a few days?

Overcapacity!

The result of this incident was that as soon as Taigang pen tip steel came out, related companies in Switzerland and Japan went bankrupt.

The huge amount of R&D funds invested by Taigang, as well as the costs of cleaning the furnace during shutdown, cannot be recovered for many years. This is a typical case of hurting the enemy by a thousand and hurting one's own by eight hundred.

After thinking about it, Fu Song told what he knew.

Of course, he omitted Taigang Group. Fu Song only talked about R&D expenses and the supply and demand relationship in the market, and the effect was no different.

After hearing Fu Song's words, Gao Qiang fell silent.

After a long while, he raised his head, his eyes gleaming with a blazing light: "What you said makes a lot of sense.

From a profit perspective, spending huge amounts of research funds only to produce a money-losing product is definitely not worth it in the short term.

But do you know why our country fell behind in modern times? It's because of your petty calculations.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates were rampant at sea, posing a serious threat to the lives and safety of people in coastal areas.

If you want to completely subdue the Japanese pirates, you need to build a strong navy.

But the cost of training a sailor is four to five times that of training an ordinary soldier, not to mention the need to build a large number of ships.

In order to save money, the imperial court blocked the entire coastline and demanded that no ship be allowed to go out to sea.

This seems like a wise move, but what are the consequences?

I think you know it without me having to tell you, right?"

Fu Song was silent.

In fact, when he saw what happened to Taigang Group before, he regarded it as a joke.

But doesn’t Taigang Group know that what it is doing is a joke?

If it's a joke, why do they still do it?

Fu Song suddenly thought of another question.

Some people have criticized the country's space industry, believing that this is a waste of money and time.

After all, the money spent on launching the Tiangong space station is an astronomical figure, and the benefits it brings are simply not proportional to the cost.

Even a country as powerful as the United States is decreasing its investment in this area, and its moon landing plan has been shelved indefinitely.

But can we really give up?

If we give up, in a few years, will our descendants accuse us of giving up the entire universe, just as we accused our ancestors?