[lbo-talk] Primitive accumulation - Harvey on Marx

[boddi satva]

I'd say that there three things de-couple actual labor time from
socially necessary labour time, as determined by exchange for use:

1) Technical conditions of production

2) Technical conditions of consumption

3) Laughing chance - probability.

Technical conditions of consumption aren't aften considered, but
that's not realistic - information, distribution, education, art and
politics all alter the conditions of consumption. Nothing has knowable
value when it's produced, only when it's consumed, therefore there are
a lot of activities other than production which can create value and
therefore profit.