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it's probably worth noting that marquee-level / celebrity entertainment is an industry where the talent pool far exceeds the labor demands of capital. to put another way: there are so many more talented people out there who would be just as entertaining for whatever audience a platform reaches than there are positions gatekept by those that own the platform.
people have been getting chewed up and spit out since always, and there's a whole giant machine devoted to focusing us on the "new" and distracting us from those left behind or pushed aside... unless there's a last little bit of entertainment to squeeze from a star's tragic fall from grace.