| This question <65|179> overall <174|178> BHales: <116|178>. |
| 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? |
| [177] BHales: Labor-Time. Marx's choice to use time as a measure of labor is tied to the idea of abstract labor. The transfer of time from one's life to a particular commodity is a direct transfer of his life to that commodity. As Oregonian states in [2002fa:32] “Time is life. The real value of a product comes from the fact that a laborer spent that hour of his/her time in its creation.” To measure the amount time spent living we do not use how many movements someone has made in life, or the amount of sweat they have shed. It would only make sense to use the same measure of life to measure labor. |
| Hans: Good. You must have realized that your in-class answer falls under those answers called wrong in [65]. |
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