| This question <27|27> overall <28|30> Hans: <26|30>. |
| Question 69: Is there other surface evidence, other than the variability of exchange proportions, indicating that exchange-value is the expression of some deeper relation of production? |
| [29] Hans: Too good to be true. As evidence that market outcomes are driven by hidden underlying mechanisms, Charles [27] brings the fact that capitalists have many opportunities to make money, and the more money they want to make the more they will make. |
| I agree that capitalists seem to be making money just because they want to, which sounds too good to be true and begs for a different explanation. The real wealth which the capitalists pull out of the market must somewhere enter the market. This is indeed proof that something hidden is happening. What is this hidden mechanism? |
| Later in the book, Marx will explain capitalist profits by the fact that wage workers produce more wealth than their wages reimburse to them. The magical enrichment of the capitalists, and the fact that those who work the most are the poorest, are two sides of the same coin. |
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