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Maeve@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok, can you please point me to a chapter where the actual economic mechanism proposed are described? Because with quick skimming, I only found abstract philosophy.

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  • Maeve@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Go read Karl Marx, beginning with Capital and The Communist Manifesto. Neither are long reads, and I should reread them myself, when I get a breather and my brain isn't mush.

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    • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The utility of a thing makes it a use value.[4] But this utility is not a thing of air. Being limited by the physical properties of the commodity, it has no existence apart from that commodity. A commodity, such as iron, corn, or a diamond, is therefore, so far as it is a material thing, a use value, something useful. This property of a commodity is independent of the amount of labour required to appropriate its useful qualities.

      I could do a million things more productive with my time then than whole paragraphs of tautologies. This is literally beyond obvious. Either point me to some concrete suggestions or don’t but I am not reading a book worth of this.

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      • Maeve@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This isn't McDonald's and I'm not your oncall personal spoon feeder.

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