• diprount_tomato@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And yet it would have a high value despite it having gone through no worker’s hands.

    Yes, the economy is crazy in quite a lot of cases, yes, sometimes things are overvalued and that further proves Marx’s stance wrong

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      1 year ago

      Oh, yeah, I’m not disagreeing. I guess diamonds work for that, I’m just saying it’s not rare at all.

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          1 year ago

          True. Just for clarity, I think the Marxist socio-economic platform is absolute horseshit and doesn’t survive contact at all with the Information Age, because it necessitates an industrial/agrarian society.