The Essence of a Commodity

Gold is an element on the periodic table. And it's part of nature itself. So you can't say that gold or any commodity belongs to a class or a group of ideas. What you can say objectively, and if you speak to any chemist or geologist, they'll all tell you this, that there are just exemplary properties to this element. As a result, the property of being rare and outlasting everything else,. The tomatoes will have to be reproduced, the sheep are going to be eaten and reproduced, the oil is going to be consumed for movement- But in post subsistence society, at that point, everything is exchanged for everything else.