>i mean lets be honest, for advanced tech per say, not a lot of the population contributes to it.

This is so utterly and completely wrong, it's sort of mind bending.

The stupid boxed set of silverware from the local Bed Bath and Beyond (Pre-bankruptcy) involves multiple cross globe border crossings by transport to bring to that silly store shelf. The complexity only goes up from there.

People massively underestimate just how many people come into play in modern supply chains.