Original sentence: Hence, people ascribe subjective values to the commodities (goods and services), which, in the course of the economic relations that are “the market”, people then perceive as an objective value, the market-price that people will pay for the goods and the services.The valuation of a commodity originates from the human being’s intellectual and perceptual capacity to consciously (subjectively) ascribe a relative value (importance) to a product, a material thing
Edited sentence: At that point, a conflict develops between their personal values, and the values of the things they own or want to own.But in fact, the growth of trading relations among large masses of people creates many value relationships between traded objects which gain an objective reality, and which escape from the individual or even the collective control of people.Human evaluations have their origin in the ability of sentient living organisms to prioritize and weigh up behaviours consciously according to self-chosen options; if they value or cherish something, that is in the first instance a subjective appreciation.If for example the housing market collapses, this is a reality that home owners cannot get away from.It has effects on house values, the construction industry, employment and incomes.Normally one would say, that values are something that people have, it is they who make valuations.They value their assets, but the assets lose value without them being able to do anything about it.Whatever valuations people may have in their minds, it does not prevent the fall in the value of their assets