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A Bounty (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the price the law puts on a person once it is tired of looking itself.

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A Bounty (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠paid only after someone else has already lost.

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A Bounty (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠money that turns a stranger into a hunter.

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A Bounty (n.) turns ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a stranger's face into a number.

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Cost price (n.) depends ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on the paid labour in a thing, value on all its labour paid or unpaid, and price of production on the paid labour plus a share of unpaid labour from elsewhere.

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Cost price (n.) abolishes, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for the capitalist, the line between wages and machinery — £100 is £100 whichever way it is spent — and this sameness is what competition levels profits upon.

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Cost price (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what the capitalist takes for the real inner value of his goods — so that his gain seems to come from selling above value, born in the sale rather than in the workshop.

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Cost price (n.) tells ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠you nothing about where value comes from, yet presents the false semblance of being a real category of value production.

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A Fair price (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠one Scaevola raised himself: told the price of an estate, he said it was worth more and added a hundred thousand sesterces.

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The Market price (n.) zigzags ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠around production price, yet over long price lists it is surprising how narrow the swings are and how regularly they cancel out — the rule of averages Quetelet found in social life.

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The Market price (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠identical for all goods of a kind however they were made, and that is how the social character of value is realized under commodity exchange.

Kinds of Prices

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