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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?

[65] Hans: Measurement of labor by time is an automatic market outcome.   Any answer which says that labor is measured by time because this is the fairest and least expensive solution is wrong because the measurement by time is not a deliberate policy or management strategy, but it is the spontaneous work of the market.

I'd like to point to my [2002fa:25] as a good explanation of the basics. My [2007SP:42] adds to this that labor is one of the noblest human activities, and much of the discomfort we feel does not come from labor itself, but from the fact that in capitalism, the labor process is at the same time the exploitation of the laborer.

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