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Why hard work doesn't set a product's price

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Mud pies take immense effort to produce, yet nobody wants to buy them. Classical thinkers mistakenly believed that the physical labor poured into a product inherently determined its total value, completely ignoring the harsh reality that buyers truly do not care about your personal suffering.

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