Talk:Decommodification

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An amazing amount of double-talk.drh (talk) 13:21, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

horribly inaccurate as it stands today. nothing about commodities, or the reduction of commodities in the world, and wield unexplained connections to markets. needs much fixing. 192.235.78.16 (talk) 17:44, 15 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Agree: "An amazing amount of double-talk"
 * It seems to me that intelligent, educated people do not actually know what "good thinking" is.
 * For much of the analytical work philosophers pursue, the golden rule is to start with the most general category and then proceed to all the subcategories to get more and more fine-grained views of the problem area.
 * Referring to the all to brief Criticism section, no economist seem to realize that the science goes wrong because it emerges from the category mistake committed against the distinct natures of the three fundamental factors: Commodities are produce[d] in fields and factories as a result of collaboration between the human factor and capital.
 * Thus apples, motor cars, etc., are commodities bought and sold in markets emerging from social interaction. Land and human labour are wrongly commodified by economists who are "only economists" (Von Mises, I believe but could be Hayek's critique of a type of economist. Janosabel (talk) 12:51, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Anupam
This is a good article. However, some expansion of the article seems possible. It would be nice to see some examples of this concept being utilized. Perhaps photos of some resource-sharing, or some visuals (a graph?) to help the reader to picture the concept at work. How about some background as an example, who coined the term? What communities practice decommodification? Have any studies been done to determine the environmental impact (if any)? I include the last contributor, @Anupam, to this discussion so that he may weigh in, if he desires. This should not to be construed as being critical of, or to, any contributors of this article. Please ping me if there are any replies. SeaBeeDee 22:11, 26 September 2016 (UTC) SeaBeeDee 22:11, 26 September 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SeaBeeDee (talk • contribs)

Sorry Anupam. The title of this discussion thread should be: "Examples?" not your name! I wrote it there as a convenience for myself only so I could get the spelling of your user name correct. Please overlook this mistake. Thank you! SeaBeeDee 22:52, 26 September 2016 (UTC) SeaBeeDee 22:52, 26 September 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SeaBeeDee (talk • contribs)

In-the-article word definitions needed
Can your university jargon words be defined? It adds a lot of time to understanding the points of what I suspect is an otherwise very well written, definitive article.

I am a geologist and inorganic chemist, and when I write articles aimed at the general level of readership, such as those who use wikipedia, I supply definitions and references of terms peculiar to what are rather arcane fields of interest to reasonably educated readers who otherwise know little of my specialized fields.

Don't forget who your readers are, including me, who don't have a clue about what you are talking about, but want to know without spending hours doing outside research looking up terms trying to find out.

I want to point out I had to come here from another article to find the definition of "Decommodification", and I still don't know. I WILL NOT go any further looking up more definitions to find out what the term means, and in that sense wikipedia has utterly failed in its purpose as an encyclopedia!

I am obviously concerned enough to have spent half an hour letting you know how I think your article could be improved.

Thanks!

Linstrum (talk) 22:46, 9 September 2018 (UTC)