Section 4: The three main links of the product

In the previous section we mentioned the properties of the product, here we analyze in detail the specific changes in its properties through its main processes in the market mechanism; In its market mechanism, the product mainly goes through three links: production, > transportation, > and sales, and in this process, it realizes the transformation from only having natural value to having functional value and finally having use value; Let me describe the process in detail:

In the production stage, that is, the processing of the natural value of things, this stage is what we call "production", in the process, the owner realizes the domination of the functional value of the industrial personnel, and finally makes it produce the use value, and the industrial personnel make it have the functional value and finally become the product through the domination of its natural value and other things;

The transportation stage, that is, the process of realizing the natural value and functional value of the product, during which the industrial owner controls the functional value of the industrial personnel, and finally makes it produce use value, and the industrial personnel change the spatial attributes of the product through the domination of other things, and finally changes the product;

In the sales stage, that is, the final realization of the natural value and functional value of the product, the owner realizes the control of the functional value of the industrial personnel and finally makes it produce the use value, and the industrial personnel distribute the product to the customer through the control of other things, so that it has the use value;

The relationship can be expressed as:

The natural value of things - > stage of production - > has functional properties - > product;

Products with natural value and functional value - > transportation - > sales - > make them have use value;

In the process mentioned above, everyone thinks about whether the value of the product has changed during the transportation stage; If it doesn't change, then it doesn't mean that the transportation stage has become meaningless for the product, and if there is a change, then what has changed, which requires us to conduct a simple analysis;

We must first return to the definition of value, that is, the value of things is composed of: natural value, functional value, and use value; So let's take a look at whether the natural value and functional value of the product have changed in the process of transportation, and we can see through analysis that its natural value and functional value have not changed, so what about the use value? Has there been a change? We have said that the meaning of use value is to stimulate its functional value or natural value, and provide it with the conditions for its possible realization; If the transportation distance of a product is different, the final use value is different, so we can see that the added value in transportation is ultimately included in the use value of the product;

According to the definition of use value, we can know that its value is generated when the functional value or natural value is realized, so if a product does not realize its use value in the end, does the added value in its transportation disappear, we can take a look at it, if a commodity is transported to the designated place after its production and only half of it can be transported to the designated place, the use value of the product is obviously different in these two cases, In the latter case, the added value of the other half of the product is due to the other half of the product, so the added value of each product during the transportation stage will eventually be reflected in the use value of the remaining product;

Here, we can also recall that in the second section of the previous chapter, when we talked about natural attributes and social attributes, we mentioned the accumulation of functional values, which is essentially the transformation of natural values and the accumulation of use values; The situation we mentioned above is actually a kind of accumulation of use value, which is similar to the accumulation of use value in functional value, but because it belongs to different stages and is essentially different, we can call it as: the disguised accumulation of use value, that is, after the end of production, the added value of the product in the process of generating use value is finally accumulated into its use value, which we call the disguised accumulation of use value; When analyzing the use value of a thing, we can make such a detailed division, but when describing the value of a thing, there is no need to make such a cumbersome division, just summarize it as the use value of the thing;