This makes me want to interject with a jocular aside.

I used to work in “Atlantic Books” before their business failed.

There was a man who wrote a series of books about how to live life as a complete slob, being concerned only with picking up women and drinking and generally leading the low life.

His first book was called “Do they serve beer in hell?” and his second book was called “Assholes finish first”

The store owner Mark was conservative and when we posted a sign announcing some of the upcoming bestsellers to arrive in the store, he made us write the second of the above as “a**holes finish first”

I thought this might give you and other readers a smile and an agreeable break in the routine of the argument.