> Competitiveness necessarily includes equal opportunity No, it doesn't. Professional (American) football is highly competitive despite the fact that opportun

> Competitiveness necessarily includes equal opportunity No, it doesn't. Professional (American) football is highly competitive despite the fact that opportunity to excel is distributed very unequally. Women, for example, are extremely unlikely to be competitive in pro football, as is anyone with any kind of physical disability, or anyone over (say) 50. In academics, children of parents who value learning are much more likely to excel than children of parents who think there is no value in reading. But the remaining pool of candidates can still represent formidable competition.