I'm having one of those moments in life where I am extra angry about the ways in which austerity and Capitalism in general makes it really hard to just do basic stuff in life like build relationships with friends because they're all working overtime and we all have no spare money to spend on hobbies
![Screenshot of Chapter six of Capital, it reads:
"The change of value that occurs in the case of money intended to be converted into capital, cannot take place in the money itself, since in its function of means of purchase and of payment, it does no more than realise the price of the commodity it buys or pays for; and, as hard cash, it is value petrified, never varying. [1] Just as little can it originate in the second act of circulation, the re-sale of the commodity, which does no more than transform the article from its bodily form back again into its money-form. The change must, therefore, take place in the commodity bought by the first act, M-C, but not in its value, for equivalents are exchanged, and the commodity is paid for at its full value. We are, therefore, forced to the conclusion that the change originates in the use-value, as such, of the commodity, i.e., in its consumption. In order to be able to extract value from the consumption of a commodity, our friend, Moneybags, must be so lucky as to find, within the sphere of circulation, in the market, a commodity, whose use-value possesses the peculiar property of being a source of value, whose actual consumption, therefore, is itself an embodiment of labour, and, consequently, a creation of value. The possessor of money does find on the market such a special commodity in capacity for labour or labour-power."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b35n5mvbwivppajrm7wzndsq/bafkreibm7r2vkjaqkquivdb4c7czcevkgzfecj3xdb3xisn6gexl3zbjtm)
