I wrote:

> You do not.  Or, do you -- can you really --  spend an infinite amount
> of labor time to extend your life?  No!

I mean, not only not *you*, but no society would be able to spend an
infinite amount of labor time to extend your individual life either.
I make this clarification, because value is not the expression of
individual labor time, but of *social* labor time.  What matters in
social c/b analysis is not how you individually "value" your own life,
but how society effectively values it, in terms of the amount of
social labor time it expects to spend to extend your life.  I don't
know whether an advanced communist society will be able to spend an
infinite amount of its labor time to extend the individual life of one
of its members.  I'd think their total labor time fund would be
limited and other priorities would be pressing as well.
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