Why Chicken Sandwiches Don't Cost $1500 

i thought this video was about a chicken sandwich and not on how to start a salt empire based on a rented boat

$5 Chicken Sandwich vs $1500 Chicken Sandwich - Buzzfeed

he cheated though, he didn't build then fly his own plane to get to the ocean

Who rents a boat? Dude, the sea is right there, just walk into it.

TSA: what is this white powder in your bag? Him: yeah, it's home made salt...

Or you know, just step outside in Wendover Utah and scoop some salt up off the ground. ;)

You forgot to add the price of energy required to boil all that water.

Title: why chicken sandwiches don't cost 1500$ 1920s Germany: **laughs in hyperinflation**

Why go through all that effort and money to get salt from the ocean when you could just get it from youtube comments?

To make a chicken sandwich from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

At the airport Guy: "um sir-" Him: "ITS SALT I SWEAR"

He focused on salt so much i think he completely forgot he was talking about a sandwich.

No officer, that is not cocaine. It is a carry on full of salt.

what if he made it with no salt ..he could have saved 1000$

Sign my petition to rename this video to "How to Start Your Own Salt Empire"

Wow, that semitruck can hold up to half of the amount of salt produced in one game of low rank league of legends!

/airport security opens Andy's 100% salt packed luggage for a drug inspection....

why not just go to a smash brothers tournament and get all the salt there for free?

he looks so depressed at the start

John Green said it well in the first episode of Crash Course: World History "Hi there, camera two, it's me, John Green. *Let's start with that double cheeseburger.* Ooh, food photography! So this hot hunk of meat contains four-hundred and ninety calories. To get this cheeseburger, you have to feed, raise, and slaughter cows, then grind their meat, then freeze it and ship it to its destination, you also gotta grow some wheat and then process the living crap out of it until it's whiter than Queen Elizabeth the First, then you gotta milk some cows and turn their milk into cheese. And that's not even to mention the growing and pickling of cucumbers or the sweetening of tomatoes or the grinding of mustard seeds, etc. How in the sweet name of everything holy did we ever come to live in a world in which such a thing can even be created? And HOW is it possible that those four-hundred and ninety calories can be served to me for an amount of money that, if I make the minimum wage here in the U.S., I can earn in ELEVEN MINUTES? And most importantly: should I be delighted or alarmed to live in this strange world of relative abundance?"

If you reused 10 five gallon jugs and bought your own boat for $1000 with the same method for driving and transporting the salt, you could drop the price to a little under a penny ($0.008) for an ounce of salt.

Great video, but you're missing a huge part of how things are shipped around the US. The rail industry is the main way to ship things in bulk. Super cheap, fast,100s of thousands of tons per train, no weight limits. So much better than trucks. And EXTREMELY fuel efficient.

Imagine the airline loses your bag, and you have to tell them to give you back your 6 ounces of salt

"BUT WE CAN KEEP SCALING"

Why chicken sandwiches don't cost $1,500? Simple. Apple doesn't sell them.

His $1,500 sandwich missed the point... He "bought a plane ticket", which someone else had to do work to provide the plane... how much would that have cost if he could not have flown? Or had to build his own plane, from scratch... and build his own boat...

For some reason this video reminded me of how hard it was saving up for materials to reach level 99 on Runescape. However when the Grand Exchange arrived it became much easier because of the distribution of materials. Did not expect this many fellow runescape players to be here :D

10 minutes later: *ok now kets say andy boiled down the entire ocean via global warming, and collected all the salt*

You didn't build your own plane; it doesn't count.

4:16 One of the 64 cents is a 67 cent.

$57 to rent a boat?!? That's a deal and a half. Who's his boat guy?

If only he looked at the RU-vid comments section, he could've harvested all the free salt he could ever want

Salt prices are going to crash once the election results come out 😂

Wendover doesn't except the superiour metric system... Wait, suitcase-liters?

You can get free salt by playing Overwatch!

Unless that sandwich was made by Gordon Ramsey, I'm not paying for it.

Thanks, now i want a chicken sandwich.

That 1500$ sandwich looks delicious though.

I was recently in the UK and I loved how Tesco had cheap sandwiches! It really cut down the cost of my trip!

we need a incremental game like a clicker game where you start off by just gathering water, make salt by hand and sell it, and later you slowly evolve your salt production until you have a fully automated salt empire which generates trillions of pounds of salt/money per second.

BUT WE CAN KEEP SCALING

"Self-sufficiency leads to inefficiency and inefficiency can lead to poverty." Words to live by. Also, I recognized some of the footage from Crash Course Economics.

Thank you soooooooooooo much for this video! For some reason, when I read this in my textbook, the concept just doesn't sink in, but since this gave me a visual example, it was easier for me to understand.

If he was trying to do the chicken sandwich by hismelf, then how did he get the seeds to plant the vegetables, fly on a plane, rent a boat, and get chicken? It would seem like he still relied on other people...

My online friends produce around 240.000kg Salt per minute.

Wait... he FLEW from Minneapolis to LA to collect ocean water... did he make his own airplane for that? I suppose not... so he didn't do it all from scratch!

Hey, thanks for picking a great sponsor. I've been looking into my options for after hs, and I appreciate it!

I love these types of videos completely random stuff I would never look for but yet you make it interest me

Yes, he had to rent a boat because everyone knows seawater stops before you reach the shore and you need to go deeper into the water to get water. Edit: read the replies, HTME explained it himself.

My economics teacher won't stop talking about this chicken dude jfc

Why do you need a boat to get sea water you can get it on the beach

"We're going to need a bigger boat."

4:15 One of the squares says 67 instead of 64.

I get the point of this video, to show economies of scale and how specialization brings costs down. But the quick and easy answer, which even an elementary school kid should get, is that he could have probably made a second chicken sandwich for only $50-100 more... Since a lot of the things he spent money on wouldn't have risen by much at all to do it for two (or three or four) sandwiches. Right away, with the second chicken sandwich, the cost per sandwich is halved. With each consecutive sandwich costing even less, but cutting the cost per sandwich dramatically until it's down to pennies.

This dude taught me more useful things about business in 10 minutes than my 2 year business studies class

Ahhh! I forgot how exactly how I found your channel, which I love, and it was this video! I saw it when it first came out, then binged your whole channel.

I wonder how quickly the bulldozers at that desalination place rust to death.

he could have made the salt from his sweat way cheaper

7:08 If this was RealLifeLore it would have said x number of Toyota corollas

This is the video that made me start watching Wendover Productions and the one I come back to watch every so often.

Anyone else think its odd that Wendover is a city in west Utah, like in the channel name. In Wendover you can walk a bit and pick up some pure salt from the ground.

Macroeconomics, division of labor and diminishing returns explained better than school ever could. Perfect video!

Your voice is so much better now, it’s amazing to see your growth!

I‘ve watched this video probably every year since it came out because it’s just so good! Should be shown in every basic economics class.

Why are mozzarella sticks so fucking expensive at restaurants?

would've been cheaper had he gone to the Great Salt Lake in Utah... just saying

$419.98, we were so close to perfection

Thank you very much! You are helping me with my business management exam.

Nice non-accent, thought you were from the states!

But..... Was the sandwich any good?

0:00 did he really just stare at the camera for 10 seconds?

this video was great and made me understand a lot more than i knew, thanks.

If you did the whole thing exclusively in metric, you would get my like.

This video is great! Your airline videos are great too. They are some of the most simple explanations of economic principles I have seen, and actually drive home the points better than any econ professor ever has been able to do so for me.

Good stuff. There's a 1958 essay on this topic called "I, Pencil:, by Leonard Read, about why a pencil doesn't cost a million dollars. It's online in many places, and there's a good animation illustrating it on RU-vid, called "I, Pencil: The Movie." Basically this all comes down to "no man is an island", and how cooperation, mechanization, and trade lifts all boats, not just one boat. (speaking of boats.)

i think this is probably one of your most interesting videos, i loved watching it!

So, So, So, So,

8.6 pounds per 1 gallon, so much easier than 1 kilogram per 1 liter

Wow, fabulous presentation, thanks for that

This is probably the most informative video on RU-vid.

Why in 6:33 the 18.000 Kg = 17.500 liters? 1 Kg = 1 Liter, that is the beauty of the international system.

This guy flew in a plane to make salt? Doesn't add. He should walk, or build his own bicycle with sticks and wood..

“It’s sea salt, I swear!”

4:16 67 cents on the 3rd from the right and 3rd from the top

Typo at 4:17 one of the 64 cents is 67 cents

OMFG boi got the classic ,£3 Tesco meal deal

Thanks for introducing me to there channel Ive been watching them for a probably a year now

Just found this channel, it's awesome!, congratulations

I think you have a little math error there (at 6:09), 40,000lbs doesn't equal 6.3kg.

So it was really the salt that made the sandwich so expensive

I feel like prepping for a McKinsey interview watching this video

4:10 Not to be picky over three measly cents, but... It adds up to $2191.61, not $2191.58.

Question : Why does a chicken sandwich cost only 1.5-2 more than a vegetarian sandwich despite the fact that it needs way more resources to make a veggie one?

Why do you need to rent a boat to get salt water? And why does it have to be California water? Pacific Northwest (or the Northeast, for that matter) are closer, and probably even cleaner.

Why did he even need a boat...

4:47 One consideration might be trains.

all these flavors you choose to be salty

You wouldn't RENT THAT MANY BOATS.

Easy to understand and educational

I can honestly say that I graduated from college and passed exams with the definitional concepts like economy of scale and scope, but have never really understood what that meant until this video.