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[242-2] Dragonfly: Skilled Labor does not produce more value per hour than unskilled labor.
Skilled labor, in it's accessment of value per hour, must take into
account a variety of factors, including: the cost to the laborer of
education (resulting in the skilled labor status) and the value of the
time spent getting the education (time not spent selling labor or
producing commodities). While these arguments are equally relevant to a
description of the wage of the skilled laborer vs. the wage of the
unskilled laborer, one must be sure not to confuse the value of skilled
labor and the wage of the skilled laborer. There is also the question of
the value of the commodity produced by the skilled laborer. THe unskilled
laborer produces through their labor, the commodity which, most often,
are the most necessary commodity: perhaps even the foundation of the
economy, i.e. food, water, power, roads, etc. Without these commodities,
the skilled laborer would not only not be able to produce their
commodities, but would scarcely be able to live. Marx would suggest that
as all value is simply congealed abstract labor time, and, thusly all
labor hours are equal. |
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