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  Question 90: Is it a character flaw to be lazy in an exploitive system?   
  [60] ZACH: Lazy in an exploitive system?   To paraphrase Marx on page 129:2, it might seem that the lazier the worker the more the commodity would cost because it would take longer. But, as he says later in the paragraph, it is not how long it takes a worker to make the product, but can the worker make it in the time frame that is socially acceptable to make the product. Therefore, it is a character flaw to be lazy in an exploitive system. If a worker is lazy and can't produce what he/she is asked to in the allowed time that they are given by their superior, then they usually will not keep their job. In our society today, which is an exploitive system, it is important to be able to do your job as efficiently as needed because companies today are always trying to beat the competition.   
  Hans: Your equation of lack of market success with a character flaw is a step Marx wouldn't take. Against this I'd like to sing praise to lazy people, who know that free time is more valuable than all the consumerist junk you can buy in the stores.   
 
 
 
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