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  Question 53: The value of a commodity does not increase if it is made by a slow or inept laborer. Explain carefully why not. Whose decision is it to do things this way? How is it enforced?   
  [96] Pizza: value of commodities   The assertion that the value of a commodity does not increase if it is made by a slow or inept laborer exists under certain conditions.   
  The homogeneity of products   
  Perfect market information of all participants   
  No differentiation of labor   
  Under these conditions, the commodity has a uniform exchange value to other commodities. This exchange value will remain constant regardless of the individual contribution. Under these conditions the exchange value is a reflection of “the labor time socially neccessary... required to produce an article under the prevailing socially normal conditions of production and with the socially average degree of skill and intensity”. There is no distinguishable differences between one good and another produced by the abstract labor. This is one of the conditions resulting from the unifrom production of goods that asserts itself in the marketplace. The marketplace therfore dictates the exchange relation commodities and thus enforces the abstraction of labor.   
 
 
 
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