“The product of mental labor — science — always stands far be…”

“The product of mental labor — science — always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”

— Karl Marx

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Addenda, "Relative and Absolute Surplus Value" in Economic Manuscripts (1861-63)

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Marx, Karl. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Karl Marx. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

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