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| Question 86: Use-value is the quality of the commodity, and exchange-value is its quantity. Right or wrong? |
| [47] Charles: Use-value is the quality of the commodity... Right. |
| Because in order for the commodity to be useful, in needs to have quality. When you make a purchase, you always consider the quality of it. This is a good example of the saying “you get what you pay for.” When you make a purchase as the exchange value, you relate it to the quantity based on your needs and the purchase price. After the purchase, or the exchange value, you need the quality to have a use value. |
| Hans: It is true that the quality of the commodity is in the foreground when you look at it as use-value, and the quantity when you look at it as exchange-value. Nevertheless, the formulation in the question is misleading. Everything has a quantity and a quality, but it is not true that everything has a use-value and an exchange-value. There are societies in which things do not have exchange-values. |
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