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Re: (OPE-L) Re: indirect labor, the real wage, and the production of surplus value

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At 11:11 20/11/2003 -0500, jerry wrote: 
Mike L asked:

> Remember, though, it is the given real wage that I am questioning, though.
> My repeated question is-- what are the real conditions that would generate
> this if productivity is increasing?

Assuming that commodities are sold at their value and assuming
competitive  conditions,  productivity increases should result in declining
commodity prices, including declining prices for means of consumption
for workers. A given real wage, under these circumstances,  requires
*declining money wages*.


OK, what produces those declining money wages? Assume that those
productivity increases drop from the sky (ie., without any effect of an
increase in the technical composition of capital).
        in solidarity,
         michael

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