All work is of equal cost, but not all work is of equal value. The best work is the work that utilizes each person's particular talents and abilities to their

All work is of equal cost, but not all work is of equal value. The best work is the work that utilizes each person's particular talents and abilities to their fullest potential so they can realize the most value from their work. A lot of life for people is figuring out what they're good at, or at least good enough at to be useful. Being at the bottom of the economic ladder makes this easier, since creating value good enough for survival is the primary goal and a lot of things done well enough can do that. Often though higher talents are not used or recognized in the daily grind and the ability to create more value is not utilized. For example, I worked at a grocery store as a teenager and the store management would roll their eyes when I would come up with all sorts of ideas for things that were above my pay grade. My next job after that was doing C programming on financial software. I saw my old boss at the grocery store one day and told her about my new job. She chuckled and said she imagined I might go on to do something like that.