The key issue in the contract needed to create life is control over money.

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• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.796
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.792
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• The processes needed to create life were damaged in the 20th century.claim0.773
  Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
• Life requires only a boundary (Markov blanket), ergodicity, active inference capacity, and autopoiesis—not reproduction or DNA.claim0.773
  Reframes definition of life focusing on dynamical self-organization rather than genetic reproduction.
• "It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.769
  Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.
• Life is exactly that property of space in which each spot becomes unique according to its place in the larger scheme of things.claim0.768
  Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
• When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.767
• In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.766
  Connection between process, attention, and love.