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Question 42: The value of a commodity does not increase if it is made by a slow or inept laborer. Explain carefully why not.

[86] Sinbad: If a commodity is produced by a slow or inept laborer it will take more time in production but does not make it more valuable. If a commodity is produced by an average worker or by a slower than average worker the end result is the same. For instance, a food commodity will taste the same when prepared by either worker. So the slower worker's commodities are not any different than what the others produce, it is just taking longer because of their lack of skill and not because they are spending more time establishing its value.

Hans: You are giving a lot of arguments how good it is that the value of the product does not increase if produced by a slow producer. I was only asking why it does not increase. The answer is very simple and implicit in what you wrote, but i would like to separate an understanding of our society from applause to it.

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