I hope you are not confusing innate ability with realized ability. I am sure you are a talented, skilled individual, but if you were born in a horribly disadvantaged situation I doubt you would have amounted to as much. I am a fairly successful, and rather bright person myself, but I do delude myself into thinking that my own success are solely the result of "innate ability" magnified by technology. A more complete and accurate statement would have been that "Technology magnifies differences in realized ability."

This type of thinking is dangerous because in a perceived Meritocracy, the poor deserve to be poor and the rich rich.