Critique on the Starchitect System

So the manifest I did had these doomsday machines in the foreground and the starchitects in the background.  It also had war zeppellins carpet-bombing the destroyed city with building bombs that ignore thier context.  Its kinda packed.

In case you can't read the text, it says, "The analogy is this: we are all singular gears in the starchitect machine.  The engine is the economy and it supplies power to the drivers, the starchitects.  When they hit the throttle, all the gears turn.  A single gear in revolt will not bring halt to the machine.  The choice is this: turn the machine or be turned by it.

I guess what I am trying to say is.  If you think of the economics of architecture you have to look at demand first.  Who is the main buyer of things architectural.  The public, the flashy, gaudy, uneducated, blithe, irresponsible public.  The public likes a flashy skin, some exotic structure, and a leaky roof or floorplan that is sub-par.  The drivers don't care and are generating alot of the profit.  It seems that the people who are not going to buy the starchitect brand are the people who can't afford it or have some architectural backing. 

The starchitect system is set up so that they drive the machine.  What they do is "trendy architecture" and everyone wants thier own knock-off.  The gears, the other architects who don't want to make thier own knock-off are the gears in revolt.  They still turn but do not progress in the system.  The goal of the starchitect system is to be the star.  So you have the caste system, where you have the stars, the demi-stars, and good architects, the bad architects, and everyone else. 

The only way the machine would stop is if all the gears decided to make a gut-grinding halt all at once.  This will never happen.  Perhaps because some are delusional that this is a good  system and they hope to be on top one day.  Some don't know that there is a system.  Some know this is a crappy system and are simply comfortable.  Comfortability overwhelms responsibility in most cases.  We are happy with our meager paychecks right where they are. 

If, and this is a longshot.  If all the gears did revolt and we rebuked the stars.  Would the demi-stars siphon themselves into star-hood?  Or would something else happen?  Could there be an anonymous architecture.  Where the buildings stood by themselves, the people were paid behind closed doors and names and recognition were never thrown out into the public?