“variety in the proportions in which the two sorts of capital may be combined introduces another cause, besides the greater or less quantity of labour necessary to produce commodities, for the variations in their relative value—this cause is the rise or fall in the value of labour.”[65] A rise in wages affects “relative values,” because wages, being a different fractional part of the entrepreneur’s costs of different commodities, the _whole_ of entrepreneur’s costs is affected in varying degrees by the increase of this one factor. In Ricardo’s view a rise of wages means simply a fall of profits. If the entrepreneur’s cost of production of good A were ½ wages and ½ “profits,” and of good B ¾ wages and ¼ “profits,” then if general wages rise a fixed percentage, and consequently general “profits” fall a fixed percentage, it follows that the entrepreneur’s costs of A and B will change, one relatively to the other, though the costs of these goods in labor are not altered. He concludes: “It appears that in proportion to the durability of capital employed in any kind of production, the relative prices of these commodities on which such durable capital is employed, will ... fall as wages rise, and rise as wages fall; and on the contrary those which are produced chiefly by labour with less fixed capital, or with fixed capital of a less durable character than the medium in which price is estimated, will rise as wages rise, and fall as wages fall.”[66]