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And draws attention away from what capitalism is best at,
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which is again and again revising the way we produce something,
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the way we distribute it, the way we design it,
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the way we design the machinery that creates it,
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even the way we design the machinery that designs the product,
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all of that is marginalized in a Marxist analysis.
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And for that reason Marxism does not function well
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in analyzing real companies in real markets.
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Now the surplus value that can be extracted
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depends on how much labor is used in production.
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As total labor used in production goes towards zero,
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the opportunity to exploit workers goes away,