The Emergence Machine

jobs · employment

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regular role where people do work for pay

jobs.employment · forms: job, jobs

Examples

Emergence

from: work pay role payment people regular
through: when effort is exchanged for economic payment within a social role that repeats over time, employment emerges

Chain to foundations

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other.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.substanceL12 substance.material: what remains through the drift a window toleratesreceiveL6 receive.communication: to get something that comes to a placepayL16 pay.economic: give resource to another in return for goods or workhappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.giveL7 give.transfer: to make a piece go to othersenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.driftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.moneyL16 money.economic: a resource that is a property of price and workneedL5 need.psychological: a state that diverges from a persistent condition of an objectcarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is therecontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.wallL10 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.maintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.paymentL17 payment.economic: a transfer of money to satisfy a required obligationpeopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.propertyL3 property.attribute: a state that a thing haspressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfacenothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingpreviousL1 previous.temporal: a thing that is before now in timeresourceL15 resource.material: output falling within the input window of a nearby system. 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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt fromemploymentL19employment.economic — a state where a person does work for paycareerL21career.occupation — a series of jobs that a person does over time with growth and skill developmentjobsL18jobs.employment — regular role where people do work for payworkL3work.effort — a change that happens when energy moves something through spacepayL16pay.economic — give resource to another in return for goods or workroleL13role.social — a position within a collective that performs a recurring pattern of behaviorpaymentL17payment.economic — a transfer of money to satisfy a required obligationpeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchregularL1regular.frequency — a thing that is the same pattern again over timeE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Used by (2)

employmentL19careerL21

Relations

enablesrole.socialis-a
enablespay.economicenables

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6