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[94] Scott: Skilled labor produce more value per hr than unskilled? According to Marx the answer is not. It seems that most of the
previous answers are imposing personal opinions and relating them to
the wages paid between the two separate groups. I have the
same problem. We are asked to reduce all labor to simple labor so
that we don't continually have to make the reduction between skilled
and unskilled labor. Marx states “More complicated labor counts as
multiplied simple labor, so that a smaller amount of complicated labor
is equal to a bigger amount of simple labor.” It is then annotated
that the market does the counting. I believe this to be the answer
in that the market counts by valuing through higher salaries, (which is
the capitalist greatest desire and its' mark of success.
Opinions may or may not agree with the market, obviously.
It is a capitalist“value” being reduced to a quantitiy.
I think one of the problems is whom determines value, and this more or less
value should be unique to individuals. i.e. I may think that lawyers are
much more valuable than teachers or plumbers, but my opinion would
only be just that. |
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