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supply and demand need not have anything to do with it.
if the idea is to think our way from some starting point into a way to parse something about capitalism as a social system, it hardly makes sense to begin the game by importing ways of thinking which are obviously ideological--obviously part of the lingua franca of the order that is in a sense being explained.
you could say that supply and demand make the give-and-take of a barter relation unnecessary because there's a "Real" value out there somewhere. so the barter negociation either results in an approximation of that (a "good result") or doesn't (a "chump" result).
things get tricky really fast i think.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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