#commodity

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. ↗

— David Byrne

#cars #commodity #down #i #i do

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#commodity #determined #exchange #exchanged #fact

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of. ↗

— Jim Mitchell

#commodity #create #more #scarcity #time

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it. ↗

— David Ricardo

#contribute #could #destitute #exchangeable #exchangeable value

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it. ↗

— David Ricardo

#commodities #commodity #diminution #every #exchangeable

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#available #bar #become #beer #black

Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#american #billion #commodity #depending #feed

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#bottle #commodity #household #ketchup #kitchen

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity. ↗

— Carl Schmitt

#democracy #equality #nationalism #politics #racism

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. ↗

— Fred W. Friendly

#bellies #commodity #instead #just #like