Services exchanged for income from labor are economic supplies, as are savings placement services exchanged for their remuneration.
1. A supply that can be sold but is not offered for sale is not a commodity.
And a supply which, after being put up for sale, has found a buyer is no longer a commodity. There is, however, one notable exception: when the purchase is made by an enterprise in order to make all or part of it for resale.
2. Haggling is systematic where always asking the seller for a discount, even if it means postponing the purchase until it is obtained, has either become part of the way of life or has remained commonplace.
The propensity for bargaining37 is fueled by the accreditation of two arbitrary and illiberal precepts (see below), held in subjective political economy to be inherent in the practice of economic exchanges: 1) the aim of non-cooperative private enterprise is, it is claimed, to generate the maximization of profit37 ; 2) The law of supply and demand mainly or exclusively regulates the price of all commodities, including in the first place the price of labor in exchange for its remuneration, it is assured.
3. These two precepts and the pseudo-definitions of economics stir up unlimited commodification.
The word "commodification," which appeared in the French vocabulary according to Le Robert in 1978, tends to be used in the same sense as "commercialization," as in preparation for the sale of natural organs of the human body and surrogacy, among other dangerous extensions of the catalog of economic objects.