Is there any way to apply this to a full-time salaried job where you can't change your "price", but are still asked to evaluate commitments of various sizes over the course of your position?
It would be hard to get it right, though. First, you not always have the freedom to pick which projects get assigned to. More importantly, there is no quid-pro-quo in the social dimension, so I cannot really see how to "demand more recognition" for completing an "unpleasant but valuable" task.