[somrand0]

> If he treated the issue rationally and sent it to this agent, he would be far happier today.

this reasoning carries an implicit assumption (or axiom[1]): "money can buy happiness"

in fact, the argues in the story, that they would probably not have as good as a relationship with their first child if they'd had gotten a lot of money back when all this went down...

[1] what is an axiom? I haven't quite figured it out, but an axiom should never be implicit. so maybe not a good simile[2].

[2] the fuck's a simile? analogy? metaphor? ugh.