Commodities
Products and services that are sold for profit. In an economy that is based around the accumulation of profit, everything is made to be something that could be sold. Things are produced regardless of the needs of those that make them, and people continue to toil over the most inane and pointless things despite there being infinitely better uses of their time.
When tools are treated as commodities to be replaced regularly, they become disposable regardless of how much precious labor and resources go into building them.
When natural resources like land and bodies of water are treated as commodities, we get the current climate crisis that is threatening to destroy the planet's ecosystem.
Commodity Fetishism
This is when we delegate our agency to commodities, in other words, when we let the presence, absence or quality of a commodity to affect our own decision-making process. Where human relations are detemined by commodity instead of free choice, creating a world of illusion