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I was confused by this part of the article: For Marx, the poet of economics, when a person’s innate value is replaced with exchange value, it is as if we’ve bee

I was confused by this part of the article: For Marx, the poet of economics, when a person’s innate value is replaced with exchange value, it is as if we’ve been reduced to “a mere jelly.” What's wrong with basing your worth on something like value provided professionally plus value provided personally, to myself and others? Are we supposed to think that we are valuable (worth something) just because we exist?

pram 2y ago
It might be fine if you’re a successful professional or entrepreneur and have a good salary or business. Of course if you’re an Amazon warehouse worker or a burger flipper, and your labor is completely fungible and provides low monetary remuneration, then you would judge yourself as low(er) value in comparison. So determining your self-worth via other properties makes a lot more sense huh? We can create value through more things than what we do for a job. It’s true!