<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The pricing does not care what the relative is... > The pricing does not care what the relative is called. It can be your brother, who grew up beside you and knows exactly what you are worth and decided it was less than his standing with the man who came for you. It can be your children, who are not sentimental about lineage once they are adults with coalitions of their own and a rank to protect inside them. It can be your wife, who watched you lose the fight and recalculated her own exposure before you had finished bleeding, because the pair-bond is a coalition of two and a coalition of two is the easiest kind to dissolve. Mother, father, the sister who was your ally at twelve, the son you carried on your shoulders: every one of them runs the same instrument, and the instrument does not have a setting for love. {{Once a relative has priced you and found the risk too high, that is the end of it. There is no appeal, because there was never a court, only an animal doing arithmetic in the dark.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The pricing does not care what the relative is called. It can be your brother, who grew up beside you and knows exactly what you are worth and decided it was less than his standing with the man who came for you. It can be your children, who are not sentimental about lineage once they are adults with coalitions of their own and a rank to protect inside them. It can be your wife, who watched you lose the fight and recalculated her own exposure before you had finished bleeding, because the pair-bond is a coalition of two and a coalition of two is the easiest kind to dissolve. Mother, father, the sister who was your ally at twelve, the son you carried on your shoulders: every one of them runs the same instrument, and the instrument does not have a setting for love. Once a relative has priced you and found the risk too high, that is the end of it. There is no appeal, because there was never a court, only an animal doing arithmetic in the dark.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-pricing-care-relative-doing-arithmetic-dark ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->