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Because my job involves monetizing things that shouldn't be "commodified" - human life, pain and suffering, the loss of a limb - I've long been interested in the literature on incommensurables - goods or services that shouldn't and often can't be traded for cash.

Forbes.com: News Victoria Pynchon 2011

And then, of course, there is the newspaper industry, which is still casting around for a reliable way to make profits in an era where news is "commodified", instant, easy to find and generally free.

Author Don Tapscott on the growing influence of public participation Andrew Clark 2010

The question then is whether an increasingly mainstream chain retailer can sustain its signature suggestion of authenticity and continue stamping out the kind of commodified unconventionality that made customers flock there in the first place. egeminder@observer.com

Feel the Lease: Anthropologie Picks Chelsea Market for Latest Spot 2009

The question then is whether an increasingly mainstream chain retailer can sustain its signature suggestion of authenticity and continue stamping out the kind of commodified unconventionality that made customers flock there in the first place. egeminder@observer.com

Feel the Lease: Anthropologie Picks Chelsea Market for Latest Spot 2009

Perhaps, as with so much punk rock, the inevitable has finally happened: dissenting from Massachusetts political orthodoxy has finally been "commodified" by the mainstream.

Reason Magazine 2010

[15] This doesn't mean that the lives of farmers are any more "commodified" than the lives of artists.

Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version) 2010

The industry hopes the new technology will change the commodified TV-set business by putting a floor under prices, stimulating demand and differentiating higher-margin devices from low-cost products.

Japan TV Makers Aren't Such a Smart Bet James Simms 2012

As well as being part of a web of activist organizations, the ghost bikes can be seen in the context of the ad hoc accumulation of street art generally, from loutish graffiti litter to Banksy's ironic--now ironically iconic and commodified--stencils, to community-based murals.

Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

As well as being part of a web of activist organizations, the ghost bikes can be seen in the context of the ad hoc accumulation of street art generally, from loutish graffiti litter to Banksy's ironic--now ironically iconic and commodified--stencils, to community-based murals.

Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

It takes cheap, commodified resources to use tech, and it takes tremendous effort in secure food and service supply to have a huge pool of non - [drooling bigoted idiot peasants who seek every petty opportunity to "get ahead" whether it's a good long-term idea or not], and that usually comes from stealing land, food, and opportunities from * someone* else.

Matthew Yglesias » Almost All Decline is Relative 2010