So we both agree that the wealthy have massive advantages and thus their successes mean less. If you get a few hour head start at the marathon you don't get to brag about how you won.
But, if you have a genetic advantage, you still do. Everyone starting at the same time, some are clearly in a different class. I guess the marathon analogy with regard to socioeconomic opportunity, then, is this: everyone gets to start at the same time, has to run the same distance, but not over the same course...some have the chance to purchase a downhill run; some can only afford a path of gently waving hills and valleys; others have no choice but to take the canyon route complete with stoplights and none of the ordinary traffic blocked for their course. Though 26.2 miles downhill is still hard, it's not as hard as some of the other courses available.
