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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?   
  [98] Disgusted: Quantity Labor - explained   I was not implying that Marx's concept of “value” is determined by how much care goes into production, thus making it more “pricier”. A commodity gains its value through quantity of labor. The more labor expended, the greater the quality of any “use-value” product can become. Thus, quantity of labor is a measurement and quality is the outcome of all the labor expended. By “importance” I did not mean dictated by supply and demand. I was emphasizing that value does not exist, I believe, until an exchange process has been intitiated placing an importance on the commodity. Perhaps this statement was unnecessary in response to the original question.   
 
 
 
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