The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.
The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.
Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.
Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.
Money must exist before it can be turned into capital.
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.