Commercialize vs Commodification - What's the difference?
commercialize | commodification |
to apply business methodology to something in order to profit
to exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality
The assignment of a commercial value to something previously valueless.
*2006 Ross Haenfler - Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-Living Youth, and Social Change
*:Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodifcation.