There is a phrase that has always unsettled me: “selling yourself.” Once a corporate cliché, it is now the ruling doctrine of modern existence. In the age of platforms like LinkedIn, we no longer work, create, love, or even grieve without imagining an invisible audience. We are selling ourselves constantly—often without clarity on to whom and increasingly without clarity on why . Once, Human Values Were Never for Sale Before this era of compulsive self-commodification, socie