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An undeniable statement that I never hesitate to express is that there exists among us a certain unity- a unity that exemplifies and embraces our differences.
Whether we act according to this understanding of our unity or not, we cannot deny that we live, think, and produce for each other; as social animals, we are beings that communicate within a chain of human activity that links us together. Call it the activity of a collective worker, human family, or family of workers, but this chain of human activity exists.

And whether we consciously produce on this basis or not- whether we understand our unity or not, it exists. An eight year old girl in Bangladesh made the shirt you chose to wear today, the milk you drink was extracted by the hands of a farmer in Atlanta, the machine that made your computer was put together by someone in Mexico. No matter what, everything we do is connected to someone else. We could not survive without the help and activity of each other.

The unfortunate thing is that many of us do not consciously produce for the needs of others, much less understand that our productive activity can actually contribute and improve this chain of human activity. Instead of valuing our relationship as human beings, we produce and value commodities and their prices; instead of understanding this chain of human activity as our bond and our power, we prioritize the commodities produced by others and completely disregard the time and labor spent into creating them.

We have chosen to value THINGS more than we value PEOPLE.

And Marx called this the "fetishism of commodities." Because we worship objects, technology, and other inanimate things in a sickening perverse way.