Marx

Marx ultimately had a negative view on the value of work in the society he spoke about. He believes that “work” is the inevitable but it is usually less enjoyable by the wage laborers. As he described, personal worth is converted into exchange value in place of what he called our single freedom, free trade. The more powerful people formed the jobs to fit their needs for supply. Those jobs that were formed were handed out to the middle working class for cash payment. A class of people who live only so long they find work. Marx says that the only way around this system was that of family relation which is only reduced to money relation. The small group of people who are relatives of the power of ones money, slowly runs out until the middle class eventually takes over with the ever changing capital market. The wage laborers become a commodity and they sell themselves. This is something that Marx believed the higher class of people could not do. They had to sell their product, which they could not make themselves. In conclusion Marx believes that every form of society has been based on the oppressing of an oppressed people. Meaning, the value of work is valued differently based on the social class a certain people may reside in.