Life Pulses

Life can be pitched as a story of progression. In a world with salaries that promise to go up, with time and experience. With one directional promotions, as we take a step up on the ladder. A gradual expansion of the standards to which we are accustomed. Till we retire. If we accept this, I can see why people confuse price and value. Why salary gets mixed up with worth. Roles and grades in big corporations try to standardise levels of success and seniority across the incomparable. Mirroring what markets do with price. An illusion of control and sense. Markets allow us to put a number on anything if two people agree. But don’t confuse this with value, permanence, or a ranking of souls. A buyer and seller have options, and constraints. They have preferences and choices. Those change. In both directions. The problem with the corporate world is it tries too hard to mirror our class and caste structures. Our prejudices. Our loyalties. Our egos. To over time turn people into a big deal. Price does no such thing. Today’s price makes no promises. It is today’s price. What you do with it is up to you.

Up and Down