"But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities."

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Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

— Neil Postman