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[76] Will: The value of a commodity does not increase with a slow
or inept worker due to the fact that the ‘value’
with which we are addressing is a socially necessary
labor-time which requires a worker to produce at the average
level. To clarify Civic [1995WI:124] breaks down
‘socially necessary,’ “Marx talks about
all the labor power of a society combined together and then
an average unit is described as a unit which is socially
necessary.” The commodity may take more time to
produce, but the actual value with which the commodity is
endowed will not increase. From the perspective of the
consumer, the consumer as a generality does not know the
amount of labor put into a certain commodity and the
commodity which was created by a slow worker which may have
taken a week, is the same value as the same commodity
produced by an exceptional worker which completed the labor
within a day. The ‘value’ is determined by the
give and take agreement/decision among the producers and
their market competition for which they have settled upon
within each given commodity. Enforcement of value is merely
the works of the market and between producers and consumers,
as ADHH [2005fa:1917] stated it
“occurs when the buyer pays the same price for a desk
that took 12 hours to be assembled by a slow laborer as he
does for a similar desk that took only 7 hours to be
assembled by a more efficient laborer.” |
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