I'm pretty sure Marx would disagree with you on that. A transaction creates no extra value by itself. Just because we end up with a bigger use value through tr

I'm pretty sure Marx would disagree with you on that. A transaction creates no extra value by itself. Just because we end up with a bigger use value through transactions doesn't mean any extra value was added to the world. Funnily enough that was the point of the article, Jeff Bezos letter was conflating different types of values and adding them together because they could all be measured in the same unit, dollars.