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[12] Rollingrock: A slow or inept laborer affects the value of a commodity Why the value of a commodity made by a slow or inept laborer does
not increase is because of the homogeneous human labor power and the
socially necessary labor time. The labor that determines the value of a
commodity is equal to human labor, “the expenditure of identical human
labor power” (Capital Ch1 p.129). The total labor power of society (total
commodities' value of society) is counted as one homogeneous mass of
human labor power, therefore, no matter how many workers or individual
units of labor power we have in our society, they are all identical and
no difference to each other. Also, in order to produce any use-value
(commodity), the socially necessary labor time is required. Therefore, no
matter the worker is slow or fast, skillful or inept, there is still a
requirement of average labor time, certain level of skills/ability and
intensive labor for every single one of them. |
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