• D61 [any]
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    4 months ago

    Its an intentional/unintentional misreading of the idea of "labor adding value". Literally ascribing to Marx/communists the idea that applying any amount of labor to a production task can fundamentally change the output.

    Heinlein's character is basically saying that Marx believes:

    "Garbage in" results in "Not garbage out" if enough labor is applied.

    Which is complete nonsense.