Amazing synchronizations! Just a few hours ago, an economist contact I have sent me this write up he did about much the same thing you’re thinking about here. I sense a big deal in it, but don’t yet have the ability to process the significance. Your post helps. See what you think of the economic POV.

The Labor Theory of Intellectual Property…economists had not yet abandoned the Labor Theory of value in favor of the Marginal Theory of value that was ntroduced in the 1870s by Jevons in England Menger in Austria, and Walras in Switzerland.

PS, Might be worth also reading his prenote Prolegomena to an Apologia

Its really interesting, and much the same as what you’re saying..