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Question 100: Coat and linen are qualitatively different use-values. Are they exchanged because their use-values are different, or because the labors in them are different?

[112] Iblindone: The coat and linen can be exchanged for many different reasons -- it is up to the individuals exchanging the goods. Due to social division of labor, individuals specialize in different types of labor and therefore an individual that specializes in producing linen uses less labor-time than another individual that specializes in producing coats and vice versa. By these two trading they are not only trading the use-values, they are trading because the labor is different in them (labor-time). By trading they both can have more commodities (use-values) for less labor.

Hans: Your answer to the question seems to be: the underlying reason of their trading is not the difference in the use-values themselves, also not the differences in labor, but the savings in labor-time.

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