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  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?   
  [93] Disgusted: Quality vs. quantity of Labor   Quantity of labor is a measurement of the time spent from taking a commodity and producing a use-value or desired materialistic need or want. This measurement of quantity is determined by the importance (placed socially) of the value of the product. Although separate from quantity, quality can only be achieved with human labor. This labor is expressed as value. Value is a property of things created with human labor, it is an attribute of all commodities, and arises only in an exchange process dictated socially. Since the content of quality and quantity of labor cannot be abstracted from a social form, the quantity of value cannot be considered mysterious.   
 
 
 
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