Well, at the risk of sounding negative but I'm surprised that this incoherent rambling made it to the top of the chart on HN and garnered such interest from the

Well, at the risk of sounding negative but I'm surprised that this incoherent rambling made it to the top of the chart on HN and garnered such interest from the community. I read the whole thing but I couldn'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/pro and he will confirm that and labor is no different. 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't be priced, bought or sold whether he be a programmer, plumber, astronaut ... etc.