According to this:
- A major asset of “A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things” is being able to show the connection between the ancient world and our world today in terms of how cheap things are produced and why. Suffice it to say that capitalism is based on the
inexorable drive to cheapen everything.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/31/how-capitalism-puts-a-price-on-everything/
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