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quoted Capital: Volume 1 by Karl Marx (Capital, #1)

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Ernest Mandel, Ben Fowkes: Capital: Volume 1 (Paperback, 1990, Penguin Classics)

'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis. It is also a literary masterpice' Francis Wheen, Guardian …

"In general, the greater the productivity of labour, the less the labour-time required to produce an article, the less the mass of labour crystallized in that article, and the less its value. Inversely, the less the productivity of labour, the greater the labour-time necessary to produce an article, and the greater its value."

Capital: Volume 1 by , , , and 1 other (Capital, #1) (Page 131)

From what I understand, Marx critisizes how capitalism punishes the efficent and skilled workers because they produce more than the "Socially necessary labour time".