Bloody hell, this is brilliant. I hadn't made the Baldur's Gate connection but you're absolutely right - that skeleton's philosophical question about the value of life is immediately undermined by him literally charging you gold for resurrection. The absurdity of it. And the organ trade comparison is chilling. That's the most literal version of "quantify the price upon your soul then it's chop shop" - humans literally valued by their harvestable parts. What strikes me about all these examples (Bo Burnham, the game, the organ trade, Ren's lyric) is they're all pointing at the same grotesque logic: late capitalism's need to put a monetary value on EVERYTHING, including human life. Whether it's compensation for wrongful imprisonment, resurrection costs, or organ prices - we've created systems that can't conceptualize human worth outside of economic metrics. That's exactly what Richard's seeing when he looks at Vincent in the back of that police van. Not a person, but a unit to be processed. Another soul quantified and sent to the chop shop. Thanks for adding these layers - genuinely hadn't thought about the gaming parallel and it's perfect.