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055 - Socialist Labour Time Planning, with Tom O'Brien, Part 1

General Intellect Unit

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The Importance of Socially Necessary Labor Time

The point to make there is that you're putting in pure hours that you actually worked and it's not how productive you were in an hour that you get worked so for example if you're not particularly productive or you are quite productive you both get the same wage because it's done on labor time. It's like allowing the this abstract labor coming back in as in instead of concrete labor which is one of the things that conditions society away from it forces society into a feedback of ever being more productive without making that actual decision to be more productive yes.

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