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| Question 7: Why does Marx discuss the form and not the content of wealth? |
| [19] Oregon: I feel that Marx is looking at the economic assumption that “more is better”. The more commodities that one has equals the amount of wealth which explains why commodities equal wealth. Ex. I have a house a Porsche, BMW, swimming pool, and a basketball court. More commodities equals wealth. |
| Hans: This is the “messenger effect”: when someone tells you bad news, you blame the messenger for it. Marx does not think that “more is better” but he will derive in the first chapters of Capital how the commodification of everything in the economy and the “more is better” curse are related and what is really driving it. |
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