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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It is the crystallisation of all the hours of abstract human labour power contained within it, duh.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A miserable pile of secrets

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Bit idea: it's the Vampire Killer but it's made out of linen and there's a little pillow at the end and you use it when you're pillow fighting with the fellas

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

But enough discourse, have at you

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

5% of a coat

[–] Kolibri@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

1/20th of a coat

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

you take a bolt of linen, measure a yard and cut it

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well linen is a cloth made from the fibers of the flax plant and I guess a yard of it would be 3 square feet

Makes me wonder what the total surface area of all my clothes is

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

A breathable weave of flax.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its impossible to understand what a yard of linen is without comparing it to another commodity not of itself.

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thinking we need some kind of universal equivalent to enable the trade of commodities because I'm losing track of it all.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

I don't know what that would be... but while I think about it, I'mma put on my coat and go for a walk.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

It's like a meter of fabric

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

$16.49 in the United States

[–] Cutecity@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

It's a space besides a house where you grow linen from linen seeds