Well, at the risk of sounding negative but I&#x27;m surprised that this incoherent rambling made it to the top of the chart on HN and garnered such interest from the community.<p>I read the whole thing but I couldn&#x27;t follow exactly what he was trying to convey there. Yeah pricing is difficult and one of the most intricate subjects in marketing and just ask any marketer or MBA student&#x2F;pro and he will confirm that and labor is no different.<p>I also think that compensation would be a better choice of words than pricing. Human labor is a commodity and thus carries a price but the human being itself is not a commodity and can&#x27;t be priced, bought or sold whether he be a programmer, plumber, astronaut ... etc.