Using the terminological conventions laid down above, we can just as easily say: every composite commodity is produced by means of the purchase of several commodities, one of which is generally the elementary and primary commodity, always exchanged in exchange for wages.
This observation is, of course, to be compared with the already made and more general observation that commodities are exchanged for commodities.
1. Contributions in kind and in industry to a commercial enterprise, new or already constituted, are the creation of commodities.
This commodity40, exchanged for a fraction of the ownership and profits of the enterprise, enters into (participates in) the composition of the commodity sold by the enterprise.
2. Example of civil servants
Françoise and François sell part of the harvest from a garden they cultivate. For the part of the crop which they sell, they create compound commodity and, whether they recognize it or not, an enterprise which will last as long as they continue to sell that part of the product of their labor. The additional income they derive from it is a creation of economic exchange value. Since the part of their harvest that they consume and that which they give away does not enter the circuit of economic exchanges, it is not necessary to include it in an economic aggregate in a Objective Political Economy, whereas alongside monetary evaluations of the same kind it finds its place in a sprawling economy.
3. This poses a fundamental political and ethical problem.
Do we want to push the economy to become as defined or as sprawling as it is possible to make it?