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  Exam Question 54: Why must every individual commodity be considered as an average sample of its kind?   
  [91] Slacker: The commodity must be considered to be an average sample of its kind if it is to reflect the socially neccessary labor time that it embodies. It is also average in that the consumer cares not whether the commodity was produced by the most expediant worker, giving the lowest cost, or the slowest worker, giving the highest cost. The consumer pays the average of these two. In other words the consumer pays according to the socially necessary labor time required to produce the commodity. If the commodity was not sold according to snalt (socially necessary abstract labor time) then indeed the lazy and slow worker would recieve a higher price for the commodity that s/he produces.   
 
 
 
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