| This question <98|101> overall <99|101> Daklar: <99|164-3>. |
| Question 177: What does Marx mean with the “palpable difference between quality and quantity of labor,” and why is this adduced as evidence that the contents of the value determination are not mysterious? |
| [100] Daklar: quantity labor - more confused To comment on message [98] where Disgusted says |
| I was emphasizing that value does not exist, I believe, until an exchange process has been intitiated placing an importance on the commodity. |
| Maybe I am wrong, and please correct me if I am way off here so that I can understand this correctly, but I was under the impression that the initiation of an exchange process is based on the fact that the things you are exchanging already have as Marx would say “congealed labor” within them. If value does not exist until a commodity is exchanged then what motivates an exchange in the first place. I would say and actually in my homework submission just recently did say in [99] that |
| Without having the essential component of abstract labor commodities would not have value, or exist for that matter unless they sprang forth from the ground voluntarily. |
| I am surely not an economist but it sounds like you are referring to another secret simular to the one about being able to buy anything with money. Some of you may have heard the saying that you have to have money to make money. |
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