以下是Factfulness真確一書內寫的實例 作者前往瑞士調查一家用極低價格標到合約的藥廠 試圖查出有什麼潛藏的不法利益勾當 結果發現該公司竟然利用付款日的落差進行套利 配合高度自動化產線達到低成本、高精度的生產規劃 快速、精準、高效、高品質的必然結果就是低成本、高水準 UNICEF runs competitive bids for pharmaceutical companies to provide it with medicines over a ten-year period. The length and size of the contracts make them attractive and bidders tend to offer very good prices. However, on this occasion, a small family business called Rivopharm, based in Lugano in the Swiss Alps, had put in an unbelievably low bid: in fact, the price they wanted per pill was lower than the cost of the raw materials. 聯合國兒童基金會採用競爭投標方式為製藥公司提供10年期的藥品 由於合約很大效期又長 因此極具吸引力 投標者也傾向提供好的價格 然而有一家位於瑞士盧加諾的小型家庭企業Rivopharm竟然投下不可思議的低標 此投標價格比原物料的成本還要低 A few years ago we saw that robotics was going to change this industry. We built this little factory, with the world’s fastest pill-making machine, which we invented. All our other processes are highly automated too. The big companies’ factories loo...