Yet, CSAs fit a populist notion of agriculture (cf. Vail 1981) that celebrates simple commodity production, rather than being explicitly anticapitalist (e.g., by questioning the profit motive, private property, and/or the organization of production based on exploiting a nonowner class). CSA shares often have an exchange value, usually a price per week, and fulfill the definition of commodity exchange: “In so far as the process of exchange transfers commodities from hands in which they are non-use-values to hands in which they are use-values, it is a process of social metabolism” (Marx 1990, 198). CSA is distinct from the form of commodity exchange we experience at the supermarket, however, because early on it was expressed as an equity investment relationship to facilitate risk sharing: members share the risk of production in exchange for a share of the production. Although CSAs are fairly new, equity relations have a long history, being one of the original ways to finance private operations for a wider good: “Years ago, a local community would develop a need with a common benefit; in … Boston, Massachusetts, sea captains sold shares in a ship sailing to China. In this instance, providing investor returns meant that Bostonians received the spices and teas they desired. In this way, equities enable a large-scale enterprise of community benefit” (Domini 2010). An equity relation means that shareholders share the benefits and risks of the endeavor. In the case of the Boston sea captain, the sinking of the ship meant a loss for the shareholders. In CSA's early days, this kind of risk sharing was explicit and remains in most definitions of CSA