An idea from Das Kapital, Volume I

Walk into any shop and everything has a price. A coat and a loaf of bread seem to have nothing in common. Yet each can be swapped for the other at some rate, so something in them must be the same.

From Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx

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