People Misunderstand What Commodity Fetishism Is So Bad

thepeacockangel:

And turn it into an “oooooh liking stuff is bad” bullshit.

It’s actually just the way that markets divorce items from their use values.  Like buying a house you never intend to live in so you can sell it to someone else, or wheat futures you aren’t going to use to sell them on.

It’s so hard seeing people misuse commodity fetishism so much