"The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society."

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The inner sort of consumer identity got the best of people. And everybody just wants things for free. And that's created this strange kind of cheapness to everything, where everything becomes throwaway. And people, I think, have started to undervalue things, maybe because there's too much, maybe because it's too easy to make, but I think mostly just because, somehow, that's the pattern that got set. And I think that's regrettable.

— Esther Dyson