• wiLD0@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    When you commodify all the people’s wants and needs, you commodify the people.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      If we are being technical, people were already commodified with the origin of Capitalism. Capitalism requires Labor-Power to be bought and sold as a commodity on the open market, that’s where surplus value extraction comes from.