>>2694307>that doesn't really explain why workers create value and machines don'tvalue is a social construct and machines dont have society. thats the simplest way of understanding it. value only appears as a commodity, not anything else.
>to Marx slaves do not create value - value is merely transferred from the slave itself to the product through depreciation, not through the creation of fresh value. why then bother with slaves at all? its certainly a contradiction in marx's system, since it implies that slavery is unprofitable, which we know is false. its doubly controversial since if slaves create surplus value, then this also existed before capitalism. if we would accept that slaves produce surplus value then we must also see that a machine equally pays for itself, since it is more productive than any slave is.