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| Question 17: Give examples of production processes which do not result in products that can be taken away from the producer and individually consumed by whoever gets hold of them. |
| [2] Frosty: One example of a production process which do not result in products that can be taken away from the producer and individually consumed by who ever gets hold of them is producing food in your home. Take for example, baking a cake. One day I come home and decide to bake a cake. I go through the process of baking this cake from scratch. Once the cake has been completed, I decide to consume the entire cake. When I, the producer, have consumed the entire cake, there is nothing left for anyone else to get a hold of to consume themselves. This example holds for any other food item produced and consumed entirely by the producer. |
| Hans: Cakes can very easily be taken away from the producer and consumed by others. I was not asking for a social arrangement in which this is not the case, but for a production technology in which this is not possible. You should look at the question in the context of the text surrounding it. |
| [2] Frosty: (datestring)Wed, 11 Jan 1995 10:40:19 -0700 (MST)(/datestring) I can't think of any technological processes which do not result in products than can be taken away from the producer and individually consumed by whoever gets hold of them. In any society, the process of exchange is an important one. Whether the satisfaction of exchange is merely for profit or consumption, it makes no difference. Is it then safe to assume that production processes are then for other individuals rather than the producer? |
| Hans: The argument in my notes was concentrating on products which are “up for grabs” in the time interval between production and consumption so that it is possible to take them away (and, implicitly, products for which it also makes sense to take them away, i.e., products whikch can be enjoyed only privately, this is the connection with Question 25 which some of you made). Your haircut cannot be taken away from you, or your education, or your health. |
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