How do communists calculate full value of labour
How do communists calculate full value of labour
So a few days ago I saw someone talk about a cashier example that will quickly learn that the money going into the company is far more than his or her wage.
How do you calculate the full value of this labour?
Cashier 1: sits idle for 90% of the day and scans items that bring in 2500 euros in that day.
Cashier 2 in a different store: sits idle 20% of the day and scans items that bring in 2500 euros in that day.
How do you calculate the full value of that labour.
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How does this turn into practice with the two examples I illustrated. Do they earn the same amount of money for the same amount of time?
All other things being equal, yes. Wages are based on the reproduction of labor power, not on how much surplus value it will produce in the realization of labor. Read the above chapter of Capital, as well as the chapters on wages near the end of this book.