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yes

is nobody deeply embarrassed to admit they "consult chatbots before every decision"

and furthermore he also emphasized the same labor could be productive or nonproductive depending on the setting. ie a pianist playing for friends of playing as part of a ticketed performance. similar considerations imho apply to private vs state deployment at times too. 2/2

marx’s thinking evolved over time so there are contradictory passages in different years but his “mature” view is services are commodities consumed at the point of production. however accountants should be seen as nonproductive overhead because they realize values of other commodities. 1/2

yes, but there exists a broad category of necessary but nonproductive-of value work. this is discussed eg in capital vol 2 chapter 6

assuming you are engaging genuinely that passage distinguishes between the productive (organizing work) and nonproductive (disciplining workers) aspects of management. cops obv the latter. elsewhere in capital (and tsv, manuscripts, etc) marx elaborates on the distinction in other contexts.

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what legitimate law enforcement goals are the Trump administration and Minnesota supposed to cooperate on at this point, exactly

disciplinary supervision is not productive of value

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yeah thats the book i'm agreeing with!

enforcing social relations in not value. value is the production of a commodity.

they do not create value, because they don't make anything.

I’m sorry but I still can’t get over the fact that the analyst Jean Leray was captured by Nazis in 1940 and knew it was time to become Goblin Wizardman & this is why the world contains sheaves

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