1. Means of production and labor are linked, production couldn’t append without them. In fact when making a product, a house for example we will need those two things. First the means of production most of the time they are privately owned instead of owned by the laborers. Those represent all the material you will need in order to make the production like the construction tools for a house. That leads us to the labor this is the only way to increase the value of what we have (like when we use bricks to build a house). Labor is measured in time, meaning that the more time we take to build some things in normal condition the more it increases is value.
  2. The meaning of value can be mistaken with the price since generally Prices are proportional to the value. But, the value is more about the work (the labor) we need in order to produce an object. So that means that in order to give value to an object the time of production needs to be the longest in normal conditions since the labor is measured in time and the more labor you put into something, the more the value increases.
  3. As I explained in the two prior answer, labor and value are related by the fact that in order to get more value you need a longer labor time. This is why the two of them are bonded.
  4. Labor power can be seen as the only commodity that can increase the value of what we have. It is the abilities and the energy we have to put into work. For that we need to entertain and build our body and abilities. As in another side, the labor is more about the time off work we put into something.
  5. The surplus values are really important since it is the result of the production, and so by the means of production and the labor. In the process of production, we are going to buy a commodity for example a house that we are going to rebuild with the means of production and the labor. This action will then increase the value and give us this surplus value. This is one of the things that created and entertain a huge gap between social classes. We might be led to believe that this process is an equal exchange in order to produce and separate surplus values in equal parts but it isn’t. The capitalist took the control of this process in order to gain more of the surplus values. The commodity of the beginning and all means of production are brought by the highest social class, the capitalist, and they get the biggest part of the surplus value. As all the work, the labor is put on by the working class, and we have seen that the surplus values come from the labor. We can see that at the end of the production the value added by the working class doesn’t really benefit them but make the high social class richer.

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