Decreased Value

"No one likes to see something break-even if that thing has no relationship to them whatsoever. Even if they're completely unattached to it. Why is that? I wonder. It is, after all, the inevitable fate of a plate, isn't it? If it's not shut away, that is. If it's put to its intended purpose-as a vessel, something useful, something human hands are meant to handle and interact with. The natural fate of a plate-and therefore the appropriate one-is that it be chipped or cracked or broken. Why should that decrease its value?" ~ Stephanie Kallos, Broken For You, p. 132