Bill I agree with you on this and I have never quoted the bible in my life, but I found that this passage to fit.
As he looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. 2 He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. 3 “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. 4 All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
There is also the problem that if everything must be equal or greater, then at some point there will only books worth thousands being listed.