21/ “Money, in the first instance, is a means whereby I can make a claim on the social labour of others: that is, a claim on that labour which is expended on the production of goods and services for others in the marketplace (this is what differentiates a 'commodity' from a 'product' like the tomatoes I grow in my backyard for my own consumption)”
Maybe I’m just a bit dense, but I’m struggling with this. “A claim on the labor [of] others”? A “commodity” vs a “product”? Maybe it’s me not being a native English speaker…
Which are his homegrown tomatoes? And where does the unpaid labor in the home (often done by women) go in this? And just because someone buys something you made, how is that “making a claim on your labor”?