The service always provided is that of putting it up for sale.
1. Goods have characteristics that services lack.
They are storable and transferable. This is why "wealth" is spontaneously associated with the possession of goods. But, as a general rule, what really makes the owner of an extraordinary property rich is not this property alone; it is just as much the number and variety of persons employed, in one way or another, to serve this owner and his family as well as to work for the maintenance and beautification of the property.
2. In economic discourse, the expression "goods and services" is often used.
The term " services and goods " better reflects a basic economic reality. As previously noted, the primary commodity is a pure service.
3. Raw materials and foodstuffs, semi-finished and finished products: will we come to the point where it is no longer these objects of economic exchange that the word "commodity" first evokes?
Everything that enterprises sell is, in the last resort, produced only by means of two services: the labor service and the savings investment service.
4. So labor and capital?
Product of labor and invested savings. We shall see further on that in Objective Political Economy it is better to designate by the noun capital only one of the investments of savings.