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	* We don’t think the world can be Woodstock … Who’d think the world could be a perpetual carnival? But we do think that the world could rediscover values that used to be automatically produced by culture but aren’t anymore because culture is subject to the commodification in our world. Everything is sold back to us, targeted to demographics. What we have to do is make progress in the quality of connection between people, not the quantity of consumption.		* We don’t think the world can be Woodstock … Who’d think the world could be a perpetual carnival? But we do think that the world could rediscover values that used to be automatically produced by culture but aren’t anymore because culture is subject to the commodification in our world. Everything is sold back to us, targeted to demographics. What we have to do is make progress in the quality of connection between people, not the quantity of consumption.
	** [[Larry Harvey]], [https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-wonderful-weird-economics-of-burning-man/376108/ "The Wonderful, Weird Economy of Burning Man" in ''The Atlantic'' (18 August 2014)]		** [[Larry Harvey]], [https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-wonderful-weird-economics-of-burning-man/376108/ "The Wonderful, Weird Economy of Burning Man" in ''The Atlantic'' (18 August 2014)]

			* The exchange relationships we choose determine whether we share them as a common gift or sell them as a private commodity. A great deal rests on that choice. For the greater part of human history, and in places in the world today, common resources were the rule. But some invented a different story, a social construct in which everything is a commodity to be bought and sold. The market economy story has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world. But it is just a story we have told ourselves and we are free to tell another, to reclaim the old one. One of these stories sustains the living systems on which we depend. One of these stories opens the way to living in gratitude and amazement at the richness and generosity of the world. One of these stories asks us to bestow our own gifts in kind, to celebrate our kinship with the world. We can choose. If all the world is a commodity, how poor we grow. When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become.
			** [[Robin Wall Kimmerer]], {{cite book \|title={{w\|Braiding Sweetgrass}}: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants \|date=16 September 2013 \|publisher=Milkweed Editions \|isbn=978-1-57131-871-8 \|page=31}}

	* When {{w\|industrial capitalism}} first started to emerge in the early nineteenth century, its machinations were relatively visible. Take, for instance, the enclosures. Pasturelands that had been used in common for centuries to provide villages with their very sustenance were systematically fenced off—enclosed—in order to graze sheep, whose wool was needed for the burgeoning textile industry. Communal life was briskly thrust aside in favor of privatization, forcing people into harsh factories and crowded cities. {{w\|Advanced capitalism}}, as it pushes past the fetters of even nation-states in its insatiable quest for growth, encloses life in a much more expansive yet generally invisible way: fences are replaced by consumer culture. We are raised in an almost totally commodified world where nothing comes for free, even futile attempts to remove oneself from the market economy. This commodification seeps into not only what we eat, wear, or do for fun but also into our language, relationships, and even our very biology and minds. We have lost not only our communities and public spaces but control over our own lives; we have lost the ability to define ourselves outside capitalism’s grip, and thus genuine meaning itself begins to dissolve.		* When {{w\|industrial capitalism}} first started to emerge in the early nineteenth century, its machinations were relatively visible. Take, for instance, the enclosures. Pasturelands that had been used in common for centuries to provide villages with their very sustenance were systematically fenced off—enclosed—in order to graze sheep, whose wool was needed for the burgeoning textile industry. Communal life was briskly thrust aside in favor of privatization, forcing people into harsh factories and crowded cities. {{w\|Advanced capitalism}}, as it pushes past the fetters of even nation-states in its insatiable quest for growth, encloses life in a much more expansive yet generally invisible way: fences are replaced by consumer culture. We are raised in an almost totally commodified world where nothing comes for free, even futile attempts to remove oneself from the market economy. This commodification seeps into not only what we eat, wear, or do for fun but also into our language, relationships, and even our very biology and minds. We have lost not only our communities and public spaces but control over our own lives; we have lost the ability to define ourselves outside capitalism’s grip, and thus genuine meaning itself begins to dissolve.

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	Within a [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] [[economic system]], '''{{w\|commodification}}''' is the transformation of things such as [[w:Good (economics)\|goods]], [[w:service (economics)\|services]], [[idea]]s, [[w:Commodification of nature\|nature]], [[w:Surveillance capitalism\|personal information]], people or animals into objects of [[trade]] or [[Commodity\|commodities]].		Within a [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] [[economic system]], '''{{w\|commodification}}''' is the transformation of things such as [[w:Good (economics)\|goods]], [[w:service (economics)\|services]], [[idea]]s, [[w:Commodification of nature\|nature]], [[w:Surveillance capitalism\|personal information]], people or animals into objects of [[trade]] or [[Commodity\|commodities]].

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	==Quotes==		==Quotes==

			* We don’t think the world can be Woodstock … Who’d think the world could be a perpetual carnival? But we do think that the world could rediscover values that used to be automatically produced by culture but aren’t anymore because culture is subject to the commodification in our world. Everything is sold back to us, targeted to demographics. What we have to do is make progress in the quality of connection between people, not the quantity of consumption.
			** [[Larry Harvey]], [https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-wonderful-weird-economics-of-burning-man/376108/ "The Wonderful, Weird Economy of Burning Man" in ''The Atlantic'' (18 August 2014)]

	* When {{w\|industrial capitalism}} first started to emerge in the early nineteenth century, its machinations were relatively visible. Take, for instance, the enclosures. Pasturelands that had been used in common for centuries to provide villages with their very sustenance were systematically fenced off—enclosed—in order to graze sheep, whose wool was needed for the burgeoning textile industry. Communal life was briskly thrust aside in favor of privatization, forcing people into harsh factories and crowded cities. {{w\|Advanced capitalism}}, as it pushes past the fetters of even nation-states in its insatiable quest for growth, encloses life in a much more expansive yet generally invisible way: fences are replaced by consumer culture. We are raised in an almost totally commodified world where nothing comes for free, even futile attempts to remove oneself from the market economy. This commodification seeps into not only what we eat, wear, or do for fun but also into our language, relationships, and even our very biology and minds. We have lost not only our communities and public spaces but control over our own lives; we have lost the ability to define ourselves outside capitalism’s grip, and thus genuine meaning itself begins to dissolve.		* When {{w\|industrial capitalism}} first started to emerge in the early nineteenth century, its machinations were relatively visible. Take, for instance, the enclosures. Pasturelands that had been used in common for centuries to provide villages with their very sustenance were systematically fenced off—enclosed—in order to graze sheep, whose wool was needed for the burgeoning textile industry. Communal life was briskly thrust aside in favor of privatization, forcing people into harsh factories and crowded cities. {{w\|Advanced capitalism}}, as it pushes past the fetters of even nation-states in its insatiable quest for growth, encloses life in a much more expansive yet generally invisible way: fences are replaced by consumer culture. We are raised in an almost totally commodified world where nothing comes for free, even futile attempts to remove oneself from the market economy. This commodification seeps into not only what we eat, wear, or do for fun but also into our language, relationships, and even our very biology and minds. We have lost not only our communities and public spaces but control over our own lives; we have lost the ability to define ourselves outside capitalism’s grip, and thus genuine meaning itself begins to dissolve.

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	* [[Privatization]]		* [[Privatization]]

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Robin Loup: Removed redirect to Commodity

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			Within a [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] [[economic system]], '''{{w\|commodification}}''' is the transformation of things such as [[w:Good (economics)\|goods]], [[w:service (economics)\|services]], [[idea]]s, [[w:Commodification of nature\|nature]], [[w:Surveillance capitalism\|personal information]], people or animals into objects of [[trade]] or [[Commodity\|commodities]].
	#Redirect [[Commodity]]

			==Quotes==

			* When {{w\|industrial capitalism}} first started to emerge in the early nineteenth century, its machinations were relatively visible. Take, for instance, the enclosures. Pasturelands that had been used in common for centuries to provide villages with their very sustenance were systematically fenced off—enclosed—in order to graze sheep, whose wool was needed for the burgeoning textile industry. Communal life was briskly thrust aside in favor of privatization, forcing people into harsh factories and crowded cities. {{w\|Advanced capitalism}}, as it pushes past the fetters of even nation-states in its insatiable quest for growth, encloses life in a much more expansive yet generally invisible way: fences are replaced by consumer culture. We are raised in an almost totally commodified world where nothing comes for free, even futile attempts to remove oneself from the market economy. This commodification seeps into not only what we eat, wear, or do for fun but also into our language, relationships, and even our very biology and minds. We have lost not only our communities and public spaces but control over our own lives; we have lost the ability to define ourselves outside capitalism’s grip, and thus genuine meaning itself begins to dissolve.
			** [[Cindy Milstein]], {{cite book \|title=Anarchism and Its Aspirations \|date=1 May 2010 \|publisher=AK Press \|isbn=978-1-84935-029-7 \|pages=109-110 \|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anarchism_and_Its_Aspirations/FQLRDgAAQBAJ?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&pg=PA109}}

			== See also ==
			* [[Commercialization]]
			* [[Privatization]]

			[[Category:Economy]]

Rupert loup: Changed redirect target from Merchandise to Commodity

2019-10-08T03:36:47Z

Changed redirect target from Merchandise to Commodity

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Kalki: Redirected page to Merchandise

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	== See also ==		== See also ==
			* [[Commodity fetishism]]
	* [[Commercialization]]		* [[Commercialization]]
	* [[Privatization]]		* [[Privatization]]