Sam Lipoff example: You have an American meat packing plant that pulls out the best-looking cuts of beef and sells them to the Japanese market at massive markup because they value how beef looks and Americans don’t.
Another example is creating computer chips - instead of needing to get every one perfect you make it cheap enough to make tons of them and then just pick out the ones that are perfect.
In a way, the American schooling system is sort of like this.