Saturday, August 17, 2013

Sweat Equity

How do we determine the value of a human being? Is it the money they have? The people they know? Their knowledge? Their skills?

All of these are common ways to judge people. And all of them have an arguable legitimacy (though they have arguable flaws, too). The thing about the ones listed above is that they all revolve around the idea of what a person can do. It doesn't reflect how much a person actually will do. 

This is where the idea of sweat equity comes in. How much work has a person already done? How much value can they add through their effort and hard work?

How valuable a person is often depends on how much value they can add to others. If people don't have a lot of skills, but they put out a lot of effort, then they should still hold a tremendous value. 

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