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  Question 134: Is Marx's appeal to experience regarding the reduction of complicated to simple labor a circular argument?   
  [68] Charles: Complicated to Simple Labor a Circular Argument.   I think it is a circular agreement based on the following reasons. It is almost impossible to determine if a specific job is complicated or simple to the person. At first, almost everything is complicated when you are just learning the job. I think everyone can relate to this when it was their first day at work. After a while, when they get used to and familiar with the job, it becomes simple. Almost every products has complicated and simple labor associated with it. Even if you take 2 different products, both of them would have labor associated with them, and both of them would be traded in the society.   
  Hans: Marx did not mean to say that simple labor is easy. Simple labor is labor that can be done by everyone in society without special training, while complicated labor often requires years of training.   
 
 
 
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