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The idea that value may decrease as a result of the very efforts made to increase it is an essential part of human experience, and it will ensure value-subtraction --in its value-added sense--a long and distinguished career.
We nod to the idea of value-subtraction whenever we fall back on Horace's phrase about "laboring to bring forth a mouse," or lament the forests felled to make possible a terrible book, or recollect an experience of working by committee.
The opposite of value-addition , of course, is value-subtraction . In this process, the value of raw economic inputs is not enhanced but somehow diminished with each step in its manufacturing or marketing.