He would spend everything he had, in the end, trying to prove that blood should have counted for more than that.

It did not.

It never does.

I want to sit with that, because it is the belief at the very center of the whole tragedy — Diego’s, and Beatrice’s, and Arthur’s — and it is a belief so common and so rarely examined that it deserves to be dragged into the light and looked at directly.

The belief is that blood confers entitlement.

That because Diego was born a Vance, the company owed him a share.