The distributed configuration
Nobody in my close arrangements was ever attached to the thing I built. They were attached to the steady state that came with it, and that steady state was never named by either side, so it was never priced, which
Presence is a cost even unbilled
A session that only runs when I am in the room is spending my capacity whether or not anybody cuts an invoice for it. What gets supplied in a room like that is not help, it is the trigger and
The missing owner
Someone who only operates has a vacant seat above him: no party to set the terms, price the hours, or decide what the work is worth. That is why nothing ever collects from him, and why the hours he means