Section 4: Stimulation of product functional value and use value

Products, that is, things that are made to have functional attributes through human labor are called products; In a certain sense, people are also their own products, and we make them according to their different functional attributes through schools, of course, they can also be through other ways, or even themselves, but there is no difference in essence, but what we are going to study next is other products other than the special "product" of people;

Starting from the definition of value, we can divide the value of the product into three parts: natural value, functional value, and use value; Its natural value is well understood, i.e. the natural substances that make up the product; Its functional value and its use value will be analyzed and explained below;

The functional value of the product, that is, the functional attributes of the product, is condensed by human labor, and the process of making things in nature have a certain function through the transformation of human value, that is, the process of generating functional value; For example, the process of making a table made of wood is the process of generating its functional value; So how to accurately identify and judge its functional value in reality, remember that we said in the second section of this chapter on natural attributes and social attributes, that functional value is composed of the transformation of its own natural value plus the accumulation of its use value; Therefore, the confirmation of functional value should be determined through the conversion of natural value and the accumulation of use value. How to understand the transformation of natural value, for example, the transformation of trees into tables, the transformation of natural values in the functional value of the table is the process of converting the natural value of trees into tables, which roughly goes through the following steps: trees - > lumberjacks - > wood - > making workers - > tables; The stage of this process from trees to timber requires the corresponding functional value of lumberjacks; In the stage of turning wood into tables, it is also necessary to produce the corresponding functional value of workers; Therefore, in the process of its natural value transformation, it involves the functional value of lumberjacks and the functional value of production workers; The overall value of the table must also include this transformation, that is, its own natural value transformation; The accumulation of its use value should first start with the analysis of its use value, as a natural substance, trees have their natural value, and after they can be turned into wood, they have use value, that is, the use value of trees; The use value of the wood itself and the use value of the table itself after the wood is made into a table, so in this process, that is, in the process of trees to the table, the use value of trees, the use value of wood and the use value of the table, it should be particularly emphasized here that the use value and functional value of people are included in the remuneration of different stages of the table, which can be regarded as a whole and expressed by its functional value, which we will talk about in detail below, so when analyzing the accumulation of the use value of the functional value of the table, It is only necessary to consider the accumulation of the use value of its trees and the use value of wood, and the use value of its table is only included in its total value, of course, it is impossible to accumulate into its own functional value, which is very obvious in its definition and actual situation, and we do not need to explain it too much, so, The functional value of the final table is composed of the process of its natural value transformation (i.e., the functional value of the lumberjack and the functional value of the production worker) and the accumulation of the use value (i.e., the use value of the tree and the use value of the wood). It should be emphasized here in advance that the wages received by workers are not their overall value (no factory buys a certain person), nor is it their individual functional value or their individual use value, but the quantification of their functional value and use value in a certain space and time, that is to say, the wages received by workers are greater than their functional value itself, which is the sum of their functional value and use value in their unit; This is actually very easy to understand, if the value obtained after the labor is its own functional value, and there is no surplus, no one will be willing to work and there is no reason to work, and this function has no meaning to exist; We can make an abstract analogy, for example, the value that a person needs to pay to learn a skill is 100, and the total value of the return generated through its use is still 100 (we are talking about the value of the return rather than the value of the output), then it is estimated that no one will accept it; Therefore, for the individual, of course, it is to improve its use value, but for the whole society, in fact, for the whole society, it is necessary to strive to reduce its use value, which we will give specific reasons and explanations in the allocation of resources in Chapter 4;

How is the use value of the product stimulated, if every object that exists in nature will naturally integrate into its trajectory, from its appearance to the natural value, the world around it will provide it with use value, all of which have a perfect system, that is, the natural system; The existence of human beings, especially the current level of human development, can be said to be separated from the natural own system, so the things and their corresponding functions produced in the human system must be provided by the human system to meet the conditions that are satisfied, that is, its use value, and the value of things can be fully reflected, which is the same as the stimulating essence of the human use value we talked about in the previous section, after the production of a product is completed, it only has the corresponding natural value and functional value, and its surrounding environment (human environment) provides its necessary use value, its overall value can be fully presented; The difference between the stimulation of human functional value and use value and the stimulation of functional value and use value of products is as follows:

Stimulation of human functional value and use value:

human natural value - > functional value - > use value;

The value of human nature - > through the outside world - > functional value - > use value;

The value of human nature - > functional value - > through the outside world - > use value;

The value of human nature > through the outside world - > functional value - > through the outside world - > use value;

Stimulation of functional value and use value of products:

The natural value of the product > through the outside world - > functional value - > through the outside world - > use value;

(If you have time to make a chart, it will be more intuitive, you can try it)