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The fact of economic exchange confers upon the value of
things something super-individual. It detaches them from
dissolution in the mere subjectivity of the agents, and causes
them to determine each other reciprocally, since each exerts its
economic function in the other. The practically effective value
is conferred upon the object, not merely by its own desirability,
but by the desirability of another object. Not merely the
relationship to the receptive subjects characterizes this value,
but also the fact that it arrives at this relationship only at
the price of a sacrifice; while from the opposite point of view
this sacrifice appears as a good to be enjoyed, and the object in
question, on the contrary, as a sacrifice. Hence the objects
acquire a reciprocity of counterweight, which makes value appear
in a quite special manner as an objective quality indwelling in
themselves. While the object itself is the thing in controversy
-- which means that the sacrifice which...

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Title: Simmel
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