In any compounding system, equality of opportunity and equality of outcome are mathematically incompatible — not because of unfairness, but because of how exponentials work. Give every person identical resources, training, and chances, and a few will still compound their advantages while most won't. The stratification is the math, not a moral failure. Framing inequality as 'the world isn't fair' is a cheap complaint; framing it as the inevitable shape of compounding systems is a posture-level claim that travels across domains — careers, wealth, citations, content, skills.
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