Baking soda, flour, icing sugar, and cocaine. They're all white powders. They look the same but have drastically different uses and prices. Platinum and steel both look metallic, but you wouldn't put steel in your safety deposit box.
When comparing two items, we often only compare one characteristic and completely ignore other factors that will affect value. It can be cruelly difficult to see new value unless we're able demand of ourselves that we seek it.
Decrepit properties, scrap metal, and sewage offer immense value to those who can look for it. What value is looking you right in the face, right now?
