"If everyone has a Harvard degree, who hauls away the sludge? The sludge hauler does. And he or she, incidentally, would be one of the best-paid workers in town. If the economy depends on hauling this stuff away, and no machine can do the task, then the community would have to introduce someone to do the work."
This struck me as super interesting because I had never before considered a hypothetical reality where everybody was equally well educated and there was nobody who isn't qualified for a higher-level job position. This leaves anybody willing to do dirty work at a significant economic advantage. If there is nobody who wants to do it they're all going to want to pay somebody to make doing this dirty job worth their time. Although I can't conceive of a real life scenario where everybody would be so equally qualified, part of me really wishes those people who do the dirty jobs were paid a lot of money. I know that this idea is not applicable in our lives just because a lot of the people who do those jobs do not do them just because there is nobody else to do them.
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