I am struck that sometimes when we determine the price of something, we don't factor in all of the costs. 

With a background in sociology, W.E.B. DuBois seemed to have a fundamental understanding of the cost to our society when we don't utilize everyone's talents and contribution. He assigned responsibility to limitations of capitalism, where power is directly related to money.

It's something to ponder in this landscape of soundbites designed to induce a desired outcome that elevate some and leaving others wanting.

From Wikipedia:
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (/djuːˈbɔɪs/ dew-BOYSS;^[1][2] February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and Harvard University, where he was its first African American to earn a doctorate, Du Bois rose to national prominence as a leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of black civil rights activists seeking equal rights. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta Compromise. Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. He referred to this group as the Talented tenth, a concept under the umbrella of racial uplift, and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.

Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. Du Bois used his position in the NAACP to respond to racist incidents. After the First World War, he attended the Pan-African Congresses, embraced socialism and became a professor at Atlanta University. Once the Second World War had ended, he engaged in peace activism and was targeted by the FBI. He spent the last years of his life in Ghana and died in Accra on August 27, 1963.

W.E.B. Du Bois believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism and was sympathetic to socialist causes.