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| Question 68: Did Marx introduce additional assumptions in order to resolve the paradox of the lazy worker, or does his solution follow from assumptions made or results derived earlier? |
| [138-8] Quake: Marx solution followed from assumptions made and results derived earlier. Previously formulated where assumptions that the socially necessary time to produce a commodity would be the average time taken to produce the commodity given the common skills and technologies available. |
| This puts the lazy worker in a bind when his/her product cannot achieve an exchange value equal to their labor time in producing the commodity since it took them longer than ‘socially necessary’. The exchange value of their product is equal to the exchange value of all homogeneous products produced within this social average production time. |
| Faced with diminished margins in the exchange value of their commodity in relation to the social average, the lazy worker would be ‘resolved’ into another trade or line of work where he/she might better conform to the social average. |
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