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  Question 53: The value of a commodity does not increase if it is made by a slow or inept laborer. Explain carefully why not. Whose decision is it to do things this way? How is it enforced?   
  [187-4] Skyler: Fwd: Your Submission Returned   “Marx claims that a worker who works at half the pace of the average will produce half as much value per hour.” The value of a commodity does not increase if made by a slow worker because the value of the commodity is the same regardless ofthe necessary labor time used in producing it. Capitalism weeds out the slow or inept worker inorder to control costs and increase the amount of production per hour. The socialist society tries to individualize people into those areas of work that they are good at. Socially necessary labor time is an example of the manufacturing (industrialized) society. For example; line-workers produce the same products at variable speeds, although the value of the commodity is the same regardless of the labor time it took to produce the commodity. The actual socially necessary labor time is not found in a particular product, but in the mass of products as a whole. If a group of line-workers are producing bottles of beer at different speeds the socially necessary labor time cannot be seen until the mass or the amount of say 200 beer's is produced at a quota of 205 bottles of beer per hour. Showing that the average time to produce 205 beer's is 1 hour, but the group of worker's only produced 200 beer's in 1 hour. THe slow worker or the fast worker cannot be seen although the quota shows a problem in labor time. It is enforced by corporate and business America in trying to control costs and increase profits. Done through the increase of machinery (technology).   
  Hans: Your first two sentences claim Marx as an authority. This is not sufficient; I wanted you to reproduce the arguments which lead Marx to his conclusion. These may be very simple arguments, but I want you to be aware of them. Your obsrvations that one may know that there is a problem without necessariuly knowing what the problem is is a good one; this comes from the fact that enforcement is done by the market.   
 
 
 
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