What is stuff? All good and services? Yes, but what else. Stuff is a communication tool. It let's other humans know your rank in the hierarchy of the pack. Humans in the society pack are in constant movement, some moving up , some moving sideways and some moving down. I know this because they show me. Similarly like dogs communicating by pissing on trees. ( labour for money and money for stuff; labour for stuff). There are ALWAYS younger, stronger people rising to usurp our position in this pack. It is our instincts to compete with them. It is our instinct to gather more stuff to maintain our position. The downside with this is society uses a disproportionate amount of resources to create stuff w/c has very little use in the big picture of society other than to communicate rank. The upside is that society is motivated to create and this in of itself spurs employment and possibly innovation.
Stuff is all goods and services. Hence the economy is defined as the production and distribution of stuff. Money is then an IOU of stuff owed. If one lends "stuff owed" to someone, since one would have to spend part of ones life without all ones stuff, one generally gets more stuff to compensate with the now less time one has. Or simply less time with stuff-> more stuff with less time. People need a certain amount of stuff to sustain themselves and generally trade labour for stuff. According to the commies, the fair price of a particular item should be the sum of the labour to produce the item plus the material. The material costs should reflect the price of finding the material, maintaining the upkeep of the find, extracting the material and delivering the material. If an entrepreneur is able to produce and distribute an equal amount of stuff at a faster rate with equal labour (more efficient), he will invalidate the commies idea f value.
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