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That fact that something is hard to do is not what makes it valuable. It's hard to dig really big holes in the ground all day at random, but it's not valuable.
by jstanley 7mo ago
That fact that something is hard to do is not what makes it valuable.
It's hard to dig really big holes in the ground all day at random, but it's not valuable.
- chaps 7mo agoSpeak for yourself, big-holes-in-ground are very valuable to me.
- bluefirebrand 7mo ago> It's hard to dig really big holes in the ground all day at random, but it's not valuable Don't mistake "it takes a lot of effort" with "it is hard" Digging holes isn't hard, it just takes a lot of effort
- rdevilla 7mo agoMarx begs to differ. By labor theory of value Sisyphus should be the wealthiest man on Earth; unless you smuggle all the complexity and paradoxes of this theory into some ill-defined notion of "socially useful labour" (how does one measure or quantify utility?) of course...
- neilcj 7mo agoMarx's labor theory of value very much still assumes a product of that labor to embody its value.
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- drewbug01 7mo ago> but that’s part of why it is so valuable “part of” leaves a lot of room for each of us to insert our own definition of “valuable” here.