Any Renascence courtesan (or tribal leader) could have told you that human attention is valuable. The difference now is that attention is quite nearby fungible, and near-readily exchangeable for dollars and cents. Just wait until eye-tracked advertising takes off.
For those who are downvoting him without having read the article, he is suggesting the title update because that is what the actual title of the article says. Either the submitter edited the title to remove "Marxist" when they submitted, or for some reason "Marxist" is one of the words HN automatically removes from titles.
The submitter took the word 'Marxist' out of the title when submitting it, but I think this was a good move, in keeping with the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The problem is that you can't say "Marx" without instantly triggering some people into ideological flamewar. That's boring and we don't need that.
The current title seems like a fair balance because it doesn't fundamentally change the point, and when you go to the article itself you can learn that it means "commodity in the Marxist sense", or something along those lines.
Or the article's author just changed the title. Happens often with big news outlets where the HTML title tag is different than the title displayed on the webpage.
Any Renascence courtesan (or tribal leader) could have told you that human attention is valuable. The difference now is that attention is quite nearby fungible, and near-readily exchangeable for dollars and cents. Just wait until eye-tracked advertising takes off.