# neglect (omission)

maintenance work below the drift rate, with the wall still distant.

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: maintenance  ·  Arena: homeostasis

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [maintenance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-maintenance.upkeep), [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [below](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-below.spatial), [rating](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rating.evaluation), [still](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-still.quiet), [work](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-work.effort)

**Through:** The components combine to describe sustained effort that fails to keep pace with aimless decline, where the threshold has not yet been reached.

**Novel properties:**
- unreached critical threshold
- effort insufficient relative to drift
- persisting below-rating state

## Examples
- The 2017 Oroville Dam spillway failure followed years of deferred inspections and erosion repairs. *(engineering)*
- Between 2008 and 2015, Greece’s public road maintenance spending fell by 74%, increasing pothole density. *(institutions)*
- The Hubble Space Telescope’s gyroscopes degraded over time, requiring repeated servicing missions to maintain function. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [duct tape](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-duct-tape.upkeep) (L16)
- [technical debt](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-technical-debt.upkeep) (L16)

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