/lit/ - Literature

>>7865429
>Marx proposes that
No. That's Ricardo and Smith. I propose you read some secondary lit on das Kapital or on the history of economics (for instance Roncaglia.)
>Even if you spend 500 man hours making a song, if I don't like it it's worthless
If produced in the capitalist mode of production, particular song commodity (say: "an up-beat pop song like the ones you hear on MTV") may indeed require 500 man hours in normal circumstances which you are forced to provide to the capitalist, to the owner of the means of production (studio, software, instruments, mass media, money, cocaine).
The reason the capitalist produced that song is that he expects to cash on it's "use value". He doesn't need an artist like Franz Peter Schubert. He needs a craftsman, like Mikkel Storleer Eriksen.And for that reason you will find that songs produced in the capitalist mode of productions tend to be rather formulaic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-two-bar_form