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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?

[50] Jazz: Time is equally valued worldwide, and is the best way to measure labor in a Capitalist society. Just as numerous classmates have made a point of, but is time the most efficient process for measuring labor? Maybe not, as Marx and myself believe. There are many different variables that could be measured from a human worker. Everyone is driven by different motives, and is a product of a different environment. And no matter what variable is subject to the case, it is a product of its environment. The quality of labor is too random in a capitalist society for measurement. So...what if one day all human labor was replaced with machines?

Hans: You are repeating things said earlier, things which were wrong to begin with. Your only new thought is that with a society without labor, a hypothetical and counterfactual situation which cannot have any bearing on today's reality.

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