• Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    But in a few parts Mark goes 1 coat equals ten yards of Lenin equals an ingot or some shit of iron equals several pounds of like some spices or some shit.

    We gotta do something similar but jn American borgor talk

    • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netM
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      grillman imagine you’re at a backyard barbecue and let’s say you bring the burgers, and so someone else will be bringing hot dogs, a third person a beer-can chicken to roast, and so forth, and you would like to exchange burgers for an assortment of other options. a single commodity (e.g. burgers) is exchanged with other articles in the most varied proportions. nevertheless its exchange-value remains unchanged regardless of whether it is expressed in x hot dogs, y chicken, z gold, etc. it must therefore be distinguishable from these, its various manners of expression.