Just like with everything else there’s a gradient of price and quality. You don’t have to buy a 1300 dollar iPhone, you could get one for only a couple hundred that would serve any use case you can think of where it would be required.
Just because something is a necessity for daily life doesn’t mean it’s going to be cheap, it can’t just be sold below cost simply because it’s critical.
Just like with everything else there’s a gradient of price and quality. You don’t have to buy a 1300 dollar iPhone, you could get one for only a couple hundred that would serve any use case you can think of where it would be required.
Just because something is a necessity for daily life doesn’t mean it’s going to be cheap, it can’t just be sold below cost simply because it’s critical.