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  Question 113: 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?   
  [95] Dani: The coat and linen are exchanged because they have different use values. If these items had the same use-values the market would have no need to exchange them. While the production processes are different, tailoring and weaving, the labor that went into them is basically the same. I do believe however the labor that went into them has to do partly with their exchange as well. Each one of us could do the labor to weave the linen and tailor coats and there would be no need to exchange, but if each person's labor is more useful in the production of one of the products than another person and that person is more useful in the production of another product then the market can come up with an exchange value between the two products. For instance in this example 10 yards of linen has double the value of the coat.   
 
 
 
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