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Perhaps if the workers got to decide how the cola was made, instead of one man or one corporation deciding, it would be better cola. Just a thought.

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But, you may not want to succumb to this product fetishism, or imperialist wannabe decadence.

Anyway, bad example from me because Cola is for losers in the first place. I would be happy if it wasn't available in the country I was living in.
For me it's only natural stuff; beer, wine, fruit juice, milk, water, tea and coffee.

Well actually that makes it a good example; a country that worries about if Pepsi or coca cola is best is in a really bad shape (I don't mean just the US, also many European countries are the same)

It is how commodity fetishism works man. Capitalism has made people very shallow and materialistic - everything is commodified (including labor) to produce a profit instead of made on its own merits, which is why things have value in appearance but not necessarily in essence. If you are stranded on a island by yourself packed with gold, the gold is going to be absolutely worthless, because you are going to be trying to survive, and not become rich since it would be impossible. You wouldn't have the backs of others to exploit. If you read chapter 1 of Capital Vol.1, Marx explains this concept in much greater detail by analyzing the contradiction of 'exchange value' and 'use value'.