Marx illustrated that the commodification of a thing does not exhaust its use-values (Cleaver 2000), and likewise this harnessing of social agency by this more nuanced and intelligent capitalist structure cancel the very real and important social and subjective work children do when they play with Pokémon. It does, however, intimate that we need to reconsider the dialectic of structure and agency in a new light.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 368