There’s a popular quote attributed to Leila Janah, “Talent is equally distributed, opportunity is not.”
We can argue what “equally distributed” really means, but I’d submit that neither talent nor opportunity are equally “available” to all people. In both cases we’re using idealistic thinking of how the world actually works, since both the realization of talent and the opportunity to translate it into value are subject to enormous disparity in social, cultural, and economic contexts.
