> You can't actually demand anything close to your value because somebody else will undercut you. I'm confused by this part. If a person can undercut you, they

> You can't actually demand anything close to your value because somebody else will undercut you. I'm confused by this part. If a person can undercut you, they can do what you do for less money. That means your value was not as high as you thought. We might be using different definitions of value. I'm using "replacement value", and I think you are using something like Marx's "use value".