Re: AUT: Immeasurable value

[Tom Messmer <messmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well duh, I KNOW what "measure" means Thomas! I'm just struck by the fact
that they seem to be suggesting that in a world of affective,"socialized"
labor, what with the internet and all, we are cast into a world
in which power is so diffuse and labor is so abstract that well, all
measure of value is either A. meaningless, or B. impossible to pin down
clearly.

As far as A is concerned, all I can tell you is that I work in as affective
and socialized a job as anyone, in fact I'm an actual Social Worker in a
hospital, helping sick people and their families, etc, and this is a
very proscribed, regularly bounded environment: roles are well defined,
wages are paid at regular intervals in set amounts...it differs from other,
more 'material' jobs ive had in the past such as assembly line worker, and
taxicab driver only by degree. I still exchange my measured time and
labor for a  measured hourly wage. What so immeasureable?

As far as B. is concerned value, has obviously always been a slippery
eel to hold onto, what's so different about this "postmodern" world?

Am I missing somthing important here?

Tom

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:06:22PM -0800, Thomas Seay wrote:
>
> --- Tom Messmer <messmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This entire chapter seems extremely fishy to me,
> > really unclear and
> > vaguely religious sounding. Can anyone clarify this
> > section, or is it as
> > silly as I think it is?
>
> Measure = transcendent ontological order...In other
> words a scale, defined by some authority.
>
> -Thomas
>
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