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So in the end you'd get a lot of output.
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Now when you pick the output you'd have to pay workers in
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order to pick the output.
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So Marx imagined that there was a wage that was arrived at by
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the struggle, class struggle,
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between the capitalists and the workers over the subsistence wage.
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So the subsistence wage was something that resulted from
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this huge class struggle, and over time maybe it would
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rise as workers got stronger, but it was still always quite
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low and the subsistence wage was what the workers would get.
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And what's left over, which was the surplus--so the
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output being more than what was put in, was the surplus.