Materialized labor is dead labor. Only living labor possesses the dual properties of labor, and involves the problem of abstract labor that creates value.

物化劳动已经是死劳动，只有活劳动才具备二重属性，才有抽象劳动形成价值的问题。

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Only by a thorough understanding of the meanings of labor force, labor, materialized labor, living labor and productive labor can we be cognizant of the fact.

承认生产劳动力的活劳动形成劳动力的新价值，就能解决这些矛盾和问题。

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In the essay, there is a systematic comment on the two current thinking ways deepening the study of the Labor Value Theory: they are the Element Value Theory and the Living Labor Value Theory.

本文就当前深化对劳动价值理论研究的“要素价值论”和“活劳动价值论”这两种思路作出了较系统的评述。

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"This labor not only takes lower wages,but accepts a standard of living so low that the American working man cannot compete with it."

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That way you can let your money rather than your labor pay your living expenses, since your labor as a source is so time-limited.

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Only Miami which has much higher labor and living costs spends more per person on health care.

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He also wants to index it to the Consumer Price Index which means automatic adjustments to the cost-of-living (but not to labor conditions), ensuring that inflation cannot take the pressure off or undermine, depending on your ideology the minimum wage level.

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