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Corruption Objection Of Commercialism
What does Sandel mean by the corruption objection of commercialism?

commercialization can generally be defined as the process of managing or running something principally for financial gain. According to sandal, commercialization began to run rampant through sports around the 80’s. the corruption objection asks about the attitudes and norms that market relations may damage or dissolve. . The corruption objection points to the degrading effect of market valuation and exchange on certain goods and practice .Critics and activist decried commercialism a “pestilence” that was “coarsening hearts, minds and communities across the country. As naming rights and municipal marketing appropriate for the common world, they diminish its public character.

Unequal Society
Commercialization in some ways have caused a division between the rich and poor, This division, Sandel argues, represents a wider social trend in which the rich and the poor share fewer and fewer common social spaces and the colonization of public spaces by corporations. A public realm where money buys everything is even harder on the poor than a world where the rich are simply richer. The marketization of everything means that people of affluence and people of modest means lead increasingly separate lives. The Skyboxification of American life (more research needed ).

Naming Rights
Every public building from football stadiums to libraries bears the name of a corporate donor. .As middle-class incomes stagnated and resistance to taxation grew, the republic came to depend more heavily on corporations and wealthy individuals to provide public goods. in the span of less than 25 years, we went from 3 corporate-sponsored stadiums to more than 100. Naming rights can be demeaning, an example is a couple who put their sons name for bid on eBay. (Search more, not enough sources)

Advertising
We live in a time when almost everything can be bought and sold. The commercialization of the last two decades has displayed a distinctive kind of boundlessness, emblematic of a world in which everything is for sale. Aggressive intrusive advertising has long been the subject of cultural complaint. We did not arrive at this condition through any deliberate choice. It is almost as if it came upon us. The moral critique of advertising comes into play when you think about the example of walking around with a corporate sponsored tattoo ad on ones forehead.

Surrogate Mothers
Fully informed agreement to sell a baby lacks moral force because certain things should not be bought and sold. Sandel would argue, if they rent their wombs as baby factories for wealthy couples,Putting a price on the good things in life can corrupt them . Perhaps the view that selling one's reproductive capacity is degrading could reflect an attempt by society to control female sexuality

Preliminary Conclusion
The commercialization of a practice is degrading in itself.This moral objection to corruption means that considering where advertising is appropriate and requires more than just a debate about property rights and fairness – we also have to consider “the meaning of social practices and the goods they embody. And we have to ask, in each case, whether commercializing the practice would degrade it. Corruption can In fact take place without without being monetary, therefore the topic of surrogacy can definitely be debatable. Chiefly, Commercialism erodes commonality.