| This question <43|45> overall <43|45> Hans: <43|45>. |
| Question 88: Does skilled labor (i.e., labor for which schooling and training is necessary, for instance the labor of an engineer) produce more value per hour than unskilled labor (like the labor of a janitor)? Explain! |
| [44] Hans: Not every unskilled laborer is slow or lazy Last week we discussed two different issues: at the beginning of the week we discussed how the value of a product is determined if two different producers produce the same product but at different speeds. |
| At the end of the week the assigned readings dealt with a different question: Assume two people produce very different things using different skills, do they still create the same value per hour? |
| Kids [32] confuses these two isues, despite the fact that they were explained in the Annotations. He writes the following paradoxical sentence: |
| The highly skilled labor will have a comparative advantage in producing goods that require relatively large amounts of unskilled labor. |
| Kid cannot mean that engineers produced the same things than janitors, only faster, can he? Does he mean that skilled laborers get some of the value produced by the unskilled laborers because they are needed for production? According to Marx's theory, exploitation is not based on skill differences but on the private ownership of the means of production. |
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