> There is no value without labor.
Yet wine is higher valued than grape juice.
Value can clearly exist without labor.
Yet wine is higher valued than grape juice.
Value can clearly exist without labor.
Turning commodity grape juice into commodity wine requires no appreciable extra labor compared to the required labor to prevent fermentation.
The grape juice vs. wine is a rather classic counterexample, but it's hardly difficult to come up with any number of other examples of value absent labor.