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056 - Socialist Labour Time Planning, with Tom O'Brien, Part 2

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The Alternative to Socially Necessary Labor Time

Xiong: Couldn't you work backwards from the plan to how many hours each person worked so that you wouldn't have people overworking and getting underpaid because it equilibrates with the total plan. If we think about what happens say you're in the car sector of the communist society right and you're producing electric cars he says. "What's going wrong in that plant let's go in and look oh shit they're there their machines are shitty" Xiong asks if his man shows on Xiong should do socially necessary labor time or actual labor time.

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