| This question <200-5|205-1> overall <200-5|201> Gottlieb: <32|201-1>. |
| Question 74: Does skilled labor produce more value per hour than unskilled labor? Explain! |
| [200-6] Gottlieb: Einfache Arbeitskraft Skilled labor produces no more value per hour than unskilled labor, according to Marx. He explains that two laborers both have the same value due to the abstract value of labor they posses. The only problem facing a society is matching the laborer with the production of a commodity that he or she does best. As Gottlieb said, as long as the laborers are matched to the “effective” commodity producing job, the CEO makes no more valuable contribution than does the car salesman. |
| The reader gets the idea after reading Marx's comments on “simple labor power” that he is refering more to time than to labor. Perhaps in the German translation, Marx could have said not that simple labor is “einfache Arbeitskraft,” but that there is “einfach Arbeitskraft,” or...there is simply labor! |
| It makes no difference what you are producing. You are “simply” producing “labor.” You are not producing a type of labor, just labor. One could give time a value and get a better idea of this “simple labor.” Each society is given so much time or labor hours. As long as they are all being utilized effectively, they are producing their potential. |
| Hans: Good thinking, but: your formulations are sometimes inaccurate, and you are overlooking something. First regarding your formulations: You write: |
| [Marx] explains that two laborers both have the same value due to the abstract value of labor they posses. |
| What you mean is: |
| [Marx] explains that two laborers both create the same value per hour due to the abstract labor they represent. |
| And later, instead of saying: |
| It makes no difference what you are producing. You are “simply” producing “labor.” You are not producing a type of labor, just labor. |
| you should have said |
| It makes no difference what you are producing. You are “simply” performing “labor.” You are not performing a type of labor, just labor. |
| Now here is your oversight: From your argument that all labor only counts as time follows that labor which needs training before it can be preformed should be credited not only with the time of the actual preformance, but also with the training time. |
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