“I see a lot of people dressing very similarly, and I see brands being cool because of their name and because of who wears the brands, but that's always been the case. That's kind of the history of fashion. You know, celebrities wear their clothes and people think these celebrities are cool, and then the clothes become valuable. It gives clothes a commodity factor once a certain individual starts wearing that brand. But do I think there's something wrong? I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWorldGivingKindCertainNamesIndividualBehindsCreativityCasesFashionClothesValuableFactorsBrandsCommodityDressingsBeing CoolFashion WorldHistory Of Fashion Author:Macklemore
“Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun.” MaySometimesMatterIndividualEnergyFunProgressAmountComfortableManagementProductionsRealmsPushingControlledPermitRacingInclusionCommodityStatus QuoComponentsMotorAutomobileSystematicLawnsPropsSpeedingLibidoMobilizationMowers Author:Herbert Marcuse
“Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ... have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, ... the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities.” WayHumansIndividualInterestCuttingEconomicDisciplineBenefitsModelsEconomicsFlowOriginalsFundamentalsPropertyMeaningfulIncomeCurseCategoriesCommodityUtilitarianEconomic Models Author:John Carroll
“Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.” HardIndividualForceProcessWorkStudySuccessfulCuttingTalentHard WorkTablesConstantDullKnivesSaltCommodityCheaperHoning Book:Danse Macabre Source: Danse Macabre
“Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and the fact that individuals want to buy commodities shows that they have utility.” WantFactsShowsIndividualQualityConceptsEconomicsCommodityMetaphysicalUtilityCircularity Book:Economic philosophy Source: Economic philosophy
“In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.” IndividualLostProcessUnderstandingIngredientsAgricultureCommodityFarmingImplicit Book:The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food Source: The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food