a) To determine relative wages it should be noted that one taler 
for one worker and One taler for One employer do not have the same 
value. The worker must buy everything worse and dearer. His taler 
commands neither so many nor such good commodities as that of the 
employer. The worker must be a spendthrift and buy and sell against 
all economic principles. We must remark in general that we have in 
mind here only one aspect, wages themselves. But the exploitation of 
the worker begins anew as soon as he exchanges the price for his 
labour back into other commodities.—Epicier, pawnbroker, 
landlord, tout le monde l’exploite encore une fois.> 

8) The employer, by commanding the means of employment, 
commands the means of subsistence of the worker, i.e., the latter’s 
life depends on him; just as the worker himself degrades his life 
activity to a mere means of existence. 

Y) The commodity labour has great disadvantages against other 
commodities. For the capitalist, competition with the workers is a 
mere question of profit, for the workers it is a question of their 
existence. 

Labour is of a more evanescent nature than other commodities. It 

* Grocer.— Ed. 
> Everybody exploits him over again.—Ed. 

cannot be accumulated. The supply cannot be increased or reduced 
with the same facility as with other commodities. 

$) Factory regime. Housing legislation. Truck system,’ where the 
employer cheats the worker by raising the price of goods while 
leaving the nominal wage the same.