Today, the logic of buying and selling no longer applies to material goods alone. It increasingly governs the whole of life. Everything has a price.
Examples everywhere: "For-profit schools, hospitals, prisons ... outsourcing war to private contractors ... police forces by private guards ... drug companies aggressive marketing of prescription drugs prohibited in most other countries." Ads in "public schools ... buses ... corridors ... cafeterias ... naming rights to parks and civic spaces ... blurred boundaries within journalism, between news and advertising ... buying and selling the right to pollute ... campaign finance in the U.S. that comes close to permitting the buying and selling of elections."
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/our-market-society-has-made-a-deal-with-the-devil-2014-07-16
Thanks for finding and posting that article, Finehoe! Thought provoking and a fresh view. Not a notable "liberal" source either, but the Wall Street Journal.