Universal Commodification The archetype of universal commodification presents a one dimensional world of value From this perspective all things desired or valued from personal attributes to good government are commodities This principle describes in monetary terms all things of value to a person Judge Richard Posner assumes that everything people own is own able and salable The value of a commodity is defined as its exchange value This valuation implies that all commodities are fungible and commensurable This takes into account that things may be valued subjectively at a sum other than market price Posner asserts that economics is the science of rational choice in a world of scarce resources An assumption is made that man is a rational maximizer of the benefits in his own self interest Unrestricted choice about what goods to trade represents individual freedom and maximizing one s gains from trade represents ideals Thus often politicians are seen as selfish logrolling individuals seeking to capture social wealth for themselves reducing social efficiency Laissez faire is presumptively efficient because it is a system of voluntary transfers Consequentialism is a broad label for the idea of identifying right and wrong by results Prostitution them In an ideal theory of justice sex should remain apart from the market so that commodified sex ought not to exist in order to preserve the virtues In our non ideal world market inalienability especially when enforced through criminalization of prostitution may harm a person s ideals rather than maintain Poor women who believe they must sell sex for a living are subject to disease arrest violence The ideal of sexual sharing is related to identity and contextually but the identity of those who sell is undermines by criminalization and powerlessness and their contextually their ability to develop and maintain relationships is stunted in these circumstances There is a fear of a domino effect that once we allow market forces into our idea of sexuality we will distort people s ideas of sexuality But this is under the assumption that nonmonetized equal sharing relationships are the norm or are at least attainable Catharine MacKinnon argues that these conditions are rare As it is now noncommodification is par tot a social structure that may perpetuate false consciousness amongst some has they try and evaluate their sexual relationships under the idea that it is equal sharing which may and is most likely not be the case cid 127 Maybe the best way into the future for this issue is a strive for the ideal in a way that does not alienate and harm certain people and does not impose ideological bondage upon them There should be incomplete commodification of goods and services According to Radin This would protect the integrity of the women and also allow them to be free of all the things that go along with criminalization Prostitution contracts should be unenforceable to remove the threat of slavery Advertising may be banned to keep the ideals and also protect prostitutes from social backlash due to their presence on advertisements even though it would not yield them as much return nor would there be the added information costs of their product Baby Selling There are a few scenarios a regime could have as it s approach to baby selling A regime that allows would be parents to approach a women and commission her to have a baby and sell it A regime that allows for unwanted babies to be sold as adoption typically is today Parent child relationships are closely connected with personhood particularly with personal identity and contextually If we were to commodify babies as we looked to for sexuality we would also commodify their expected feature eye color height IQ health etc therefore there would be superior and inferior babies If a completely free market baby industry came to fruition it would be hard for us not to put a dollar value on all of our attributes as people There might be cases where people who want babies are the best people fort he job of raising the babies and assuring they become good complete people cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127