guards and dealers definitely produce use-values; otherwise no-one
would pay them. But, at least in Marxian political economy, they do
not produce surplus-value. The guard simply preserves property rights,
while the cashier transfers them. The worker who produces
surplus-value -- who might be a service-worker, contrary to Adam Smith
-- actually creates new property rights, which are held by the
employer.

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CB: If they produce use-value, then they produce exchange-value.
Use-values are the thing in which exchange-value exists.  If they
produce exchange-value , then they can be exploited out of
surplus-value.

The use-value a security guard produces is the absence of having some
means of production or commodities stolen, that is preservation of
possession, preservation of appropriation of the commodities and
therefore preservation of surplus value for the capitalist.
Appropriation or possession of the commodities is just as much a
necessary condition for expropriation or exploitation of surplus value
as the labor producing the value.

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