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  Question 72: 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?   
  [52] Cmack: lazy worker.   The labor theory of value does not imply that the more lazy and inept the laborer, the more valuable his commodity. Although Marx claims that “A useful article has commodity value only because human labor in the abstract is objectified or materialized in it,” the intent of his explanation is often misconstrued. Marx emphasizes not only is it abstract labor which is being measured, but also that labor time is defined as “no more than is socially necessary.” Labor cannot be added as a mathematical equation to receive an average according to Hans, but what is “socially necessary,” which is judged on an individual basis. Therefore the lazy worker's input cannot be measured in the commodity, because she will not be deemed “socially necessary.” Instead an assumed time of an efficient worker will be measured in order the determine the value of the commodity.   
  Hans: Good nutshell explanation of the theory. The sentence with the “mathematical equation” is not properly constructed.   
 
 
 
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