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...a market? I can't tell if you're saying "A market, duh" or "Inconceivable! True worth is abstract and platonic and impossible to assess!"

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The market doesn't pay more because we somehow discovered the person actually does more. That would only be the case if because of the discovery either more people decided to hire doormen or fewer people would be interested in becoming doormen.

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