SortStack #346 — 2027-05-21
By price · Order from cheapest to most expensive.
- A single sheet of printer paper $0.01
A standard 500-sheet ream costs about five dollars — and the average office worker prints roughly 10,000 sheets a year.
- A large hand-tossed pizza from Domino's $14
Domino's once guaranteed delivery in 30 minutes or the pizza was free — the promise was scrapped after lawsuits over drivers speeding.
- A Rolls-Royce Phantom, before options $517K
Each Phantom's 'Starlight Headliner' is hand-threaded with hundreds of fiber-optic stars — buyers can order the exact night sky from a date of their choosing.
- One F-35A stealth fighter jet $82.5M
The pilot's helmet alone costs about $400,000 — it lets the pilot effectively see through the aircraft via cameras mounted around the fuselage.
- WhatsApp, when Facebook bought it $19B
At the 2014 acquisition, WhatsApp had about 55 employees serving 450 million users — a price of roughly $350 million per employee.
- The International Space Station $150B
Often called the most expensive object ever built, the ISS has been continuously inhabited since the year 2000 and orbits Earth about sixteen times a day.