You make an excellent point that not everyone is capable to do everything in the world with just some gumption and training. We are all different in ways that makes some skills and knowledge unattainable for practical use.

A lot of us have interests and hobbies beyond our abilities. It's also awesome that you are smart enough to know what you don't know (many people who actually suck lack the self awareness)

Your enthusiasm may one day inspire someone else to do great things in that field. Maybe it's a child's future or maybe it's a question you ask that sets off a thought process in an expert. Maybe it inspires you to think about a problem of your own a different way.

Challenging experts to explain what they do so the rest of us can understand and discuss only helps. If you met a particle physicist or astronomer in real life, they'd absolutely love talking with you and corner you at the party and have a great time. Their coworkers would be jealous. :)

Anything we learn isn't wasted.

Not everything we learn has to earn money.

A living wage should not require extreme skillsets or extreme ambition.

A living wage should not require so much time and energy that all there is to life is work.

Living in your parent's basement or with multiple roommates as your only option is not a living wage.

These should be choices people make because they want to, not requirements if they want to afford food and medicine. Or temporary need to do's (like breakups, moving to a new area, theft, etc)

I agree you should be paid a real living wage for whatever it is you do. If the job is worth having it done, it is worth paying a living wage to have it done. Even if it doesn't take a particle physicist to do it. :) Even if it is a low stress job for the person doing it.

I also agree Corporations should not own and rent out single family homes at all. There do need to be rental options for people, but it should be feasible to buy a place too. But that is a different rant.