{
  "handle": "Care",
  "mechanism": "The application of {{work}} to reduce a target's {{entropy}} without an explicit {{value}} extraction. It creates a buffer against volatility.",
  "gloss": "Non-transactional maintenance energy",
  "invariants": [
    "Reduces the target's {{entropy}}.",
    "Requires {{work}}; it is not free.",
    "Extracts no {{value}} from the target in return."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "tier": 1,
    "ring": 0,
    "supersedes": [
      "sema:Care#mh:SHA-256:cdfae572389ee7b84aa847b9320c072053f25827a7b06891cb08cd8d18aef40b",
      "sema:Care#mh:SHA-256:413702da5928490b73e9aad2760480d231f2c40cf4c30a7d298ab118581ff20c"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Infrastructure",
      "Primitives"
    ]
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Care#mh:SHA-256:8b8f5e78e6b66790e450d7ff0ed3a757248423b4f63d00879d1b26c7ff333661",
  "sema_ref": "Care#8b8f",
  "sema_stub": "8b8f",
  "failure_modes": [
    "Transactional drift: the carer begins expecting return, which makes it an exchange rather than care.",
    "Unsustainable upkeep: entropy is reduced at a Work cost the carer cannot maintain."
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "entropy": "sema:Entropy#mh:SHA-256:d5f7482e6c06a1e48eadbf28e6dca0cc0eb176bf75c70e7e467284f656d20bae",
      "value": "sema:Value#mh:SHA-256:37fd75758d04cdd7f57a636ccb5394d463713d60c33b694e37ab71f4a5a896f8",
      "work": "sema:Work#mh:SHA-256:f0c3ba2d663c900244d2ed814ed3682c56a867aa32bc3c4dfd1b19fe311aa2c6"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Infrastructure",
  "sema_category": "Primitives",
  "used_by": {
    "references": {
      "Gardener": "sema:Gardener#mh:SHA-256:e8445560044682eee75897f1a7067bac7adb5d09ab457bdffdb747d685e51fb4"
    }
  }
}