the doctrine

Rent becomes wages.

Software as a service was never just software. It was software plus a hostage — your data kept in someone else’s tables, your identity living in someone else’s rows, leaving priced higher than staying.

Nervur makes the hostage impossible. A being under your own custody can walk to any house willing to run it, on your word alone, the day you choose. A vendor who wants to keep you has to earn it, the same as anyone else asking for your business.

What’s left, once the hostage is gone, is work worth paying for: running a house well, writing a species with craft, teaching the next operator the trade. Rent becomes wages.

Picture how that’s meant to work: a bakery that wants its being run well pays the person who runs its house, and the species that being runs was written by someone paid for that craft.