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  1. Jul 2022
    1. In general, the greater the productiveness of labour, the less is the labour time required for the production of an article, the less is the amount of labour crystallised in that article, and the less is its value; and vice versâ, the less the productiveness of labour, the greater is the labour time required for the production of an article, and the greater is its value

      A shirt might be more essential than an airpod pro, which is just a luxury item, but a shirt required less time to produce than an airpod therefore the airpod are generally almost 5 times more expensive. It's funny how it's labour time that determine the price and not supply and demand

    2. A use value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because human labour in the abstract has been embodied or materialised in it

      So an object use value exist because it is materialized by human labour, but the use value of these objects are categorized differently base on their utility while human labour are "all are reduced to one and the same"? funny