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I am, of course, assuming that if everyone is earning the same, that the education will cost the same (or be free). That's how things usually run in the communist countries I've visited. If you remove that assumption, then perhaps what you say is true.
Also, I disagree with you over money being the be-all-end-all of chosing a vocation. If that were true, everyone would be trying to get in the bar association or finish an MBA (until the market became so saturated they were worthless). Nobody would become a priest. Yet neither is true.
See, what is hard work for some people is fun for others. If it's fun then money becomes a secondary concern, at least as long as you earn enough to live comfortably.