I'm not OP, but I am similar to him in that I cheated/got carried through CS, have produced very little, and now have ~$900k in my 20s.

I'm short, male, not physically attractive, but not overweight. People enjoy having me around on the team; I'm a citizen of the country, so not worried about getting kicked out if I'm canned

I've also never stayed somewhere 2+ years

I almost exited the industry this year, but I'm going to give it another go and perhaps up my productivity.

Well, good on you for getting so far so quickly.

Did you accumulate 900K in wages, options, or through blockchain speculation? Not sure how you could get to 900K so quickly.

Mostly blockchain, with initial capital from wages

Would love to hear your hypothesis, care to share it?

I get what he's saying. I myself am not so pretty, but I carry myself with pride and have that "alpha male" attitude. I speak with confidence, humor and a bit louder than others -

And that lets me get away with a lot of slacking off.

It isn't hard to infer. This is about confounding effects of non-professional tangibles. Human judgement is often influenced by non-technical qualities.

eg You'll find that the advantages offered by being attractive is tangible, but never quantified. It can allow you more stable employment, as unfair as that may seem in the abstract.

This is a little off-the-path, but is additive. Domain experts, for example, often get a lot of leeway in performance reviews because it isn't always needed. If you're hired on as a DB2 expert, you're golden because DB2 is a sub-standard database and you get to answer questions in the most forgiving manner while doing almost nothing - "it doesn't do that" "that's not available" "there is no standard practice".

It should be obvious, I think, that the question is whether being of the pre-dominant nationality/ethnicity, and also being physically fit, etc, makes it easier for someone to get away with coasting through their job without doing much work.