In Phase VI the subject begins to look in two directions. Upward to aging parents who now require navigation of the eldercare system, monitoring of medications, and increasing logistical support. Downward to adult children attempting their own Phase IV entrenchment under conditions tighter than the subject's were. Each direction draws unpaid labor from the Phase-VI subject. The Office benefits from both.
The subject experiences the obligations as love. The Office endorses the framing. Love performs the extraction the market would otherwise have to perform at scale; the substitution is the Office's most reliable Phase-VI cost saving.
The Office's cohort-median allocation of the Phase-VI subject's weekly time across the directions.
Fig. 6.3.A — Phase-VI weekly time allocation (cohort median, hours)