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[-] MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

Well they’re not as valuable because they didn’t have to be dug out the ground. The amount of work that goes into something is what makes it valueable. That’s why I only buy the toughest to reach diamonds from the most brutal mines in Africa, now those are valuable!

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

The amount of work that goes into something is what makes it valueable

Hello, I'm Tim Cook and let me tell about all the hard work that went into this monitor stand

[-] The_Mixer_Dude@lemmus.org 10 points 1 year ago

How many slave children were spent to make each stand?

[-] MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago

A lot of work went into building the brand name into what it was for that to be valuable.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

Just realized that was satire, but anyway I already started writing so I'm posting it lol.

Labor theory of value was outdated to centuries ago.

Labor sets a minimum value when stuff is in demand, but without demand the value can be zero despite how much effort was put into it.

[-] MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Two* and no, sorry. It’s not my fault you don’t understand what socially necessary labor time is, and hence don’t understand LTV and have mistaken your own ignorance for an argument. You’ll never be a big boss top dog businessman like me with such a feeble understanding.

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