Labor
Labor noun - A dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work.
Value
Value noun - The amount of money for which something will find a buyer.
Both words in one sentence
- Marx argued, like the other economists of his day, that value is based upon the labor used to produce a commodity; this is known as the labor theory of value.
- This is because only labor creates value, technology does not; the addition of technology reduces the amount of value in the commodity and the price the commodity would fetch upon a market.
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If the value of their labor is greater than zero, it's economically exploitative (although many slaves did their level best to make the value of their labor less than zero, by feigning stupidity and carelessness); regardless, being forbidden to leave is exploitative in some sense.
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