Karl Marx
Commodity fetishism: Marx made this one up, it refers to when a commodity (anything bought or sold, including labor) has any kind of social value surrounding it that elevates its market value over what it practically should be. From wikipedia: An example is that a pearl or a lump of gold is worth more than a horseshoe or a corkscrew.
A horseshoe or corkscrew are infinitely more practically valuable, but human beings like pretty things.
No comments:
Post a Comment