Works like this are not some expendable commodity. They are priceless treasures.

Good works have no value if they are done to achieve something or for a compliment.They are in itself a priceless reward that a person can get.

The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries.

Just like Santa Claus, a farmer works all year on a commodity, and at the end of the year he gives it all away.

It's not spongy like commodity chicken.

Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word "experiment" in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?