Another victim of the efficiency of the market. Market forces know no culture except what consumers pay for. Absent real care, stewardship and focused investme

Another victim of the efficiency of the market. Market forces know no culture except what consumers pay for. Absent real care, stewardship and focused investment, the product will always get cheaper. And of course consumers' tastes are under attack from another direction: their attention spans. Some load-bearing pillars of human culture are weakening.