What's this ridiculous diefication you're doing of people. It's all just work, and if the work doesn't arguably produce more than what you cost, you're not really very persuasive of an investment, especially if you can be replaced, and everyone can.
Being really good at skateboarding can earn you a bit of money and notoriety, but not necessarily and it's a hell of a lot of work, which will end eventually. Being really good at skateboarding and having good style sells things for the companies that pay you, but your skill is ancillary, it's the notoriety of the skill that matters.
I'd add to this that I've met people with high levels of achievement and competency, and they are inspiring in some ways, but I don't hold them up and herald them like this. They're just people, they have people problems, nobody is really exempt from that. They can be alcoholics, they can go bankrupt, they can go out of fashion and get old, they can break bones, their dogs can die, their cars can get broken into, their partners can leave them or they can be virgins who never figured out human interaction. If you're getting robbed in a sketchy part of town, you can't yell out "but.. but I'm an L9 engineer at Google" and somehow get out of it, unless the guy robbing you is a homeless junior trying to enter the industry and since you got in 20 years ago when there were only 2 rounds of interviews, one of which was to estimate how many windows there are in Seattle, maybe you can get them in.
Being really good at skateboarding can earn you a bit of money and notoriety, but not necessarily and it's a hell of a lot of work, which will end eventually. Being really good at skateboarding and having good style sells things for the companies that pay you, but your skill is ancillary, it's the notoriety of the skill that matters.