Invention and Value

While some inventions are the children of Necessity, others are the products of more spontaneous brainstorms. Pieces of medical technology are examples of the former, while, in 1965, the need for such a thing as personal access to an Internet was hardly on anyone's mind. Thus, while the usefulness of some inventions is prefigured in the conditions to which they are solutions, that of others is first determined by their arrival. But, in the latter case, they embody the labor involved in producing them. Hence, inventions demonstrate that Labor Value and Use Value can be mutually independent, prior to influencing one another.