You're right, I think I understand. OP is laying out the metrics dependent on social relations by which one may estimate a sort of "fair" wage. My rant was tan

You're right, I think I understand. OP is laying out the metrics dependent on social relations by which one may estimate a sort of "fair" wage. My rant was tangential to that bullet point but relevant to the second bullet I quoted... so I probably should just remove the accusatory word "incorrect" from my post ;)