This is a deep question.

Yet I have asked this hundreds of times and am  amazed at the answers.

99% of the time people think I am talking about money- either their accumulated assets or their value in terms of annual salary.

I purposely don’t elaborate as the answer is so revealing of what is going on inside that persons psyche and their level of self esteem.

Your worth and ability to accumulate assets has nothing to do with what you feel you should be paid by an employer or based on the market value of the work you do.

Your worth is measured and rewarded in direct proportion to the value you bring to other people.

This should give you a clue as to why Bill Gates has the wealth he has and why the founders of an unheard of company 15 years ago called Google are on their way to being amongst the wealthiest people on earth.