People talk as if we could all lift ourselves up by our bootstraps and be filthy rich as we want to be.

That's just not true. Even if everyone suddenly got their Steve Jobs on tomorrow (forgetting how much that would probably screw the world in general) we can't all sit at the top. Even if we're all educated and talented, someone still has to clean the toilet.

Given that we've created a society where someone's got to clean the toilet and pick up the rubbish, maybe let's think about what we can do to see that these people and their lives are valued at something higher than where the market sets the bar.