A person who works the cash register at a fast food establishment, earns an honest paycheck, respects the customers, does their best.....

is just as valuable to a society as the leadership.

A job shouldn't define a person, how they do their job should.

For example, a problem I had with many Military pilots (my former peers) is a prevailing attitude that

Pardon my French here...they think their "$hit don't stink"...... forgetting
it's the folks who keep the birds in the air that are the unsung professionals.

Some of these airframes are 35 or 40 years old and the reason they all aren't falling out of the skies is because they've been maintained.

Same applies to our infrastructure in our cities and towns. Maintenance crews keep the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics at bay.