{"id":2372,"date":"2012-04-17T19:53:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/17\/this-idea-of-labour-being-hidden-in-things-and\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:59","slug":"this-idea-of-labour-being-hidden-in-things-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/17\/this-idea-of-labour-being-hidden-in-things-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>This idea of labour being hidden in things, and the value of things arising from the labour congealed inside them, is an unexpectedly powerful explanatory tool in the digital world. \u2026 When you start looking for this mechanism at work in the contemporary world you see it everywhere, often in the form of surplus value being created by you, the customer or client of a company. Online check-in and bag drop at airports, for example.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/interconnected.org\/home\/2012\/04\/02\/marx_at_193\">Marx at 193 ( 2 Apr., 2012, at Interconnected)<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>This reminds me a lot of Tesler\u2019s Law which states that the complexity inherent in a system is constant and can only be shifted from product to user or back.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This idea of labour being hidden in things, and the value of things arising from the labour congealed inside them, is an unexpectedly powerful explanatory tool in the digital world. \u2026 When you start looking for this mechanism at work in the contemporary world you see it everywhere, often in the form of surplus value &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/17\/this-idea-of-labour-being-hidden-in-things-and\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}