Someone called Risch Barnard asks: why is this comparison in commodity and human rights so established?
The power, cost, and energy use involved in one unit of computation is declining at a more consistent, dependable rate than we have seen with any other commodity in human history.
"I would never apply the word commodity to human beings," said James R. Roberts, vice president of Dominion, an Oklahoma company that locates private prisons and brokers transfers of prisoners for a fee.
The ICT sector which accounts for approximately 2% of global CO 2 emissions [7] has become an integral lifestyle commodity for human beings.
Wheat flour, the "Staff of Life", has been an essential commodity to human existence through the centuries and is currently the most widely consumed staple food.
As Day makes clear throughout the book, the value of a commodity of human labor does not exist apart from racialized, colonialist, gendered, sexualized, classed, and ableist meanings.
Sodium compounds have been known since ancient times; salt (sodium chloride) has been an important commodity in human activities, as testified by the English word salary, referring to salarium, the wafers of salt sometimes given to Roman soldiers along with their other wages.
And the successful execution of both dinner and commerce ultimately depends on that most volatile of commodities, the human being.
Unavailability does sometimes increase the desirability of things, but why? Economists, philosophers, and sociologists have tended to attribute the appeal of unavailable commodities to human vanity.
