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I'll buy your car, minus a windshield wiper blade, for a dollar. I'll also sell you a windshield wiper blade from mine for half of the bluebook value.
It certainly doesn't generalize to physical objects composed of smaller objects; and the standard assumption is that almost all talent has non-exceptional results.