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Question 66: First Marx says that the quantity of value is determined by labor time, and then he continues: “It might seem that if the value of a commodity is determined by the amount of labor spent in its production, the more lazy and inept the laborer, the more valuable his commodity would be.” Why does Marx write here: “it might seem that”? Does his prescription how to measure the quantity of value lead to absurd results or does it not?

[36] Hans: Explain Things in a Simple Straightforward Manner   Hurricane [31] gives a nice summary of the Annotations, and somewhere in this summary is also the answer to the Question. Breakaway proceeds similarly in [32]. This is not exactly how I want you to approach your homeworks. Imagine you were studying Marxism together with a friend, and the friend said to you: Doesn't the labor theory of value imply that, the more lazy and inept the laborer, the more valuable his commodity would be? How would you answer your friend?

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