Commodification of Value

Everything has become commodified under Market Society, devaluing everything we hold dear. Words, ideas, art, culture, nature, people, and love itself; nothing is sacred in modern Capitalism. People are becoming sociopathic and pathological because we don’t “value” anything. Everything is bought and paid for. Nothing is inherently sacred or important…we are losing all true, tangible value. All of our social interactions are becoming commodified. Our material living is becoming commodified. Sex is commodified. A person, resource, or action’s value is tied to how much money can be made from it, otherwise it does do not have value or relationship to the economic order. 

– Markets seek opportunity to take, steal, or exploit value.

– Economic process of valuation becomes one of “exchange value”. Material & biological resources are reduced and commodified to “market” value. 

– Everything becomes a machination of the system. Commodities have a value at a point in time, but they do not have (inherent) value because the current system frames reality from what is cost efficient, profitable, and consumption-generating. 

Money and financial instruments of abstraction (stocks, derivatives, securities, futures, interest) become commodities in themselves as a core medium for wealth creation, beyond their use as currency and resource allocation.

– Value between things like labor and resources are now completely distorted because everything is so artificially inflated and created in the financial operations of society.

– Objective value is non existent now because everything is this game of competing, inflated, subjective, speculative value.

– The concept of “Capital” is arbitrary- what one determines to be useful to generating more capital is completely arbitrary and subjective.

“Value”/valuation has to be tied to a physical referent, to things that are actual physical properties of the universe. It must not be dependent on one’s labor/vocational contribution, but intrinsic to all people unconditionally, and it must have a sustainability basis. The true wealth of society is our innate ingenuity, and the technical efficiency which extends from it that enables well being.


Author: admin

Concerned citizen, artist/musician, seeking to help paradigm shift society to a new more humane and peaceful state. Organizer of Zeitgeist Movement activism in LA for over 10 yrs. Some of the projects I'm interested in are holding recurring meetings/socials, doing monthly LA-Activist townalls to bridge with other groups, and also building a team for our Art & Media festival events that we usually try to plan for later in the year. Please reach out to me anytime. tzmlachapter@gmail.com.