Commodification now extends to organs, surrogacy, grief, and standing in line

Evidence

In our time of pro-market ideology and practice, this cycle has become so pervasive that we eventually fail to notice its audacity or contest its claims. For example, you can now “purchase” human blood and organs, someone to have your baby or stand in line for you or hold a public parking space, a person to comfort you in your grief, and the right to kill an endangered animal. The list grows longer each day. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 313

Categorization

• CANDY: A concrete, high-impact list of commodified human experiences — easy to retell and effective at making the abstract cycle vivid.