Now the accumulated capital, which has meanwhile grown up more slowly, again has the surplus which it earlier spent in the form of wages, i.e. as coin, in order to buy the use value of labour, available to it in the form of money, in order to realize it as capital in living labour, and, since it now also disposes over a greater amount of working days, its exchange value grows in turn. (Even this not really developed in Ricardo, but mixed up with the theory of rent; since the surplus which capital earlier lost in the form of wages is now lost to it in the form of rent, owing to the growth of population.)
Pero pwede ring ipangsibak sa ulo ng swapang na kapitalista. Kung ginamit natin ang karayom o palakol sa ganitong "dakilang" layunin, ibig bang sabihin, mas mataas ang kanilang magiging "halaga"? Kung ang "kabuluhan" ng isang bagay ang pagbabatayan, ang dapat na may pinakamahal na presyo na kalakal sa buong mundo ay ang Bibliya dahil ito ay ginagamit para isalba ang kaluluwa sa impyerno at ireserba ng pwesto sa langit. Pero bakit hamak na mas mahal ang isang instrumento ng distruksyon na gaya ng paltik na rebolber kumpara sa ordinaryong Bibliya?