| This question <45|50> overall <47|49> DCotardo: <1292|138>. |
| 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? |
| [48] DCotardo: Labor-Time. Labor-time is a way to measure the value of the labor that is unbiased and simple. Everyone worldwide uses the same time counting system from seconds to minutes to hours etc. It would only make sense to use time as a standard method of measuring the value of labor. Measuring by counting how many movements or steps were made would only lead to a confusion and always changing value of labor due to people's different sizes and abilities to produce. Measuring by discomfort would also lead to an untrue value. In [42] Hans explains that some people enjoy working hard and seeing the fruits of their labor while being exploited and others will just plainly do their job. |
| What it comes down to is some people work harder than others and there is no way to measure value of labor. |
| Hans: Please leave the value of labor out of this. We are discussing not the value of labor but the value created by labor. These are two different things. You are bringing a few new thoughts not present in previous answers this Semester: you say that time is a world-wide uniform measure, and that the number of steps one taked depends on the size of the laborer. Your tacit implication that the size of the laborer should not play a role is important here. But generally your answer has the same flaw as all the answers, which I tried to explain in [52]. |
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