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| Question 74: Does skilled labor produce more value per hour than unskilled labor? Explain! |
| [545-1] Skippy: Finally this thing works; sorry. Value has little to do with who produces the good. The good is produced. A person put in a hour of work. Skilled or not. A hour of labor went into producing this commodity. |
| In Marxism, each person is just as valuable as the next. It does not matter if he is a doctor, teacher, lawncare, etc. A hour of work is a hour of work. |
| There isn't any difference in who has worked the hour. A hour is a hour. Under Marxism, each hour worked is equal. |
| If a equal amount of labor was put into the production of a good, then it doesn't matter who put in that hour. |
| Under the capitalist system, skilled labor can be more valuable tha unskilled. The skilled person would produce a higher quality product at a faster rate than a nonskilled person doing the same job. |
| Hans: You are making the elementary error of thinking that Marx was talking about socialist society, in which all labor counts as equal. Also the explanation in the last paragraph about capitalist society is wrong. Question 74 is about skilled workers who produce different things than unskilled workers. |
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