Patele Malokim

Salaam al-Qim seems to say we're all the same but then if there's an element of a standard that you can live up to, a potential that can be fulfilled or not fulfilled, we end up in very different places. When I think about Patele Malokim, should I be thinking about it or being created in the divine image just for the listeners out there which is how Genesis describes the human formation? Should I bethinking about it as a floor or a ceiling? In other words, to what extent is it like universal basic metaphysical income where just by virtue of having human form I am already dignified? And toWhat extent is it merely a capability