What’s So Bad About Commodification?
3 min readNov 20, 2017
One of my pet peeves is a particular brand of woolly-political thinking whereby individuals denounce the ‘commodification’ of things that, according to them, shouldn’t be commodified. It’s usually things like health care and/or education which said individuals wrap in soppy, emotional rhetoric and reams upon reams of abstract concepts because those things are far too important to be treated as mere commodities.
