Learn English – Hypernym for “goods” and “services”

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I'm coming up with a model for how human relationships work, and trying to break down the fundamental areas of "value" that people exchange. One of them is simply related to real world survival, and includes work people do for each other, resources and finances they share, etc. Anything that has a tangible and immediate effect on the world.

This is very commonly referred to as "Goods and Services", but I want a more general term that is one clean word. For a period I was using the word "Work", but that doesn't really include resources and money.

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According to Wikipedia quoting Marx:

Economic commodities comprise goods and services.2


2 Karl Marx, "Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy(Rough Draft of 1857-1857)" contained in the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 28 (International Publishers: New York, 1986) p. 80.)

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