>Bill Bartlett:
>> work. But the surgeon's work does not begin merely when the surgeon
>clocks on at the
>> operating room the first day and is not even the labour of the surgeon
>alone. The value of
>> the surgeon's hour of labour is the realisation of much more than the
>relatively untrained
>> work of the assembly worker.
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>Which is exactly the point I argued - it makes little sense to determine
>the value of output by the amount of time spend to produce it.
But my point is that if we take account of the fact that the labour time spent producing the surgeon's output includes all the labour time invested in training, both by the surgeon as a student and all the hours of those who contributed towards that, it does make sense.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas