A much better example would be to have all students run around a 400 meter track with some students having 1 - 100 meter head start.
This isn't about inequality or privilege, this is about survivorship bias. The entire point is to completely remove all those issues in a way that makes it obvious to everybody that the only possible explanation in this made-up example is blind luck.
In the real world, it isn't all blind luck, but sometimes there are cases where the luck signal does in fact overwhelm everything else, lotteries being a great example.
Also typing/pronouncing/using 'LED lights' makes for a great tautology. ("Light emitting diode" lights)
English is weird, sometimes.