This question <42|48> overall <44|47> Meximills: <1355|276>.

Question 89: Why is labor measured here by labor-time, and not by counting how many movements were made, or by the drops of sweat of the laborer, or by the discomfort of the laborer?

[45] Meximills: Although Marx may consider the costs of physical movement, sweat and blood, and general discomfort to be important elements to the costs of labor in production, Marx recognized that these attributes to the costs of labor in production are hardly measurable and are not as limited as time. Because time is more limited than these other elements it will have a greater impact on the value society will place on the products a laborer produces (in section 1.1d Marx is primarily concerned with quantity of value). Additionally, time is easily measured, whereas overall comfort is relative to each worker and loss of sweat and blood is almost impossible to measure.

Hans: It does not seem that you read my [42]. My [2005fa:111] applies to your submission.

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