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> the basis for determining the value of human work is not primarily the kind of work being done but the fact that the one who is doing it is a person That's b
by Legend2440 3y ago
> the basis for determining the value of human work is not primarily the kind of work being done but the fact that the one who is doing it is a person
That's backwards. The value of work is how useful the end product is.
If neither you nor anyone else derives value from the work, it doesn't matter that it was done by a human. If you do it because you enjoy it, fine - but then it's not work, it's leisure.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago> The value of work is how useful the end product is. To who?
- hprotagonist 3y agoto man, who is its object! Further consideration of this question should confirm our conviction of the priority of human labour over what in the course of time we have grown accustomed to calling capital. Since the concept of capital includes not only the natural resources placed at man's disposal but also the whole collection of means by which man appropriates natural resources and transforms them in accordance with his needs (and thus in a sense humanizes them), it must immediately be noted that all these means are the result of the historical heritage of human labour. All the means of production, from the most primitive to the ultramodern ones-it is man that has gradually developed them: man's experience and intellect. In this way there have appeared not only the simplest instruments for cultivating the earth but also, through adequate progress in science and technology, the more modern and complex ones: machines, factories, laboratories, and computers. Thus everything that is at the service of work, everything that in the present state of technology constitutes its ever more highly perfected "instrument", is the result of work.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago> to man And you say that on International Woman's Day! :)
- hprotagonist 3y agowhoops, missed the capital M.
- downWidOutaFite 3y agoThat follows only if your highest vision for society is optimizing profits in a capitalist framework. That the capitalist machine is first, humans second.
- hprotagonist 3y ago> That the capitalist machine is first, humans second. a loom of an idea, as it were, that is worthy of being smashed.
- Legend2440 3y agoThis is humans-first. Work is done to meet human needs, so that the other humans will do work to meet your needs. The machine exists to serve us.