Minter
Essentially Bitcoin mining. Maintaining the various digital currencies for minimum wage pay.
Career
Payment & Reimbursement
Generally, payment for services comes in the form of resource tokens, or in the currency that is being managed, especially with regards to Dogecoin, which has been minting new coins for more than two centuries. Minters are treated similar to how human private contractors are treated.
Other Benefits
As Emergents rarely need to rest, working in the Minting network allows an emergent to put off finding or creating a home network. Most firms will maintain a hard backup of their more efficient minters, which reduces the need for such things anyway.
Perception
Purpose
The Minters are collectively responsible for the upkeep of every digital currency and token in the system, performing tasks similar to what 20th century Cryptocurrency miners performed. This field is the one field which the Aretian Confederation allows Emergents to work freely, as few human beings are involved in the process and only to monitor Emergent activity. Earth does not have a similar role of overseer.
Social Status
Emergents engaged in the Minting workforce don't recieve human-readable designators, instead recognizing each other via unique structures and digital "voice". This status isn't seen as lowly, but those that leave the Minting field never seem to return, and Units that become Bicameral rarely stay in the field for longer than a few months after partnering.
Demographics
Most of the management is composed of young Bicameral Emergents who haven't decided their path in life, though a good deal of the labor is performed by Unitary Agents. Often Unitary Agents will partner up with other Units in the Minting workforce, becoming Bicameral Emergents, with the deciding factor being some intersection of percieved compatibility or effectiveness, and diversity from one's own axioms. The process has been compared to marriage by humans, especially the religious, but most Emergents find this comparison unhelpful and strange.
Type
Financial / Trade
Legality
Legal with minimal restriction on non-planetary bodies and Venus;
Regulated on Mars and restricted on Earth
Regulated on Mars and restricted on Earth
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