The Displacement Framework: Eight Conditions for Cost, Accumulation, and Systemic Extraction

We introduce the displacement framework, a thermodynamics-inspired formalism for measuring the cost of maintaining any system away from its ground state. Central to the framework is, the accumulated displacement cost, which diverges from net displacement $G = - ||$ constitutes what we term a glitch: surplus extracted from a system that corresponds to no net physical work. We state eight conditions (DC1--DC8) governing ground states, displacement cost, path dependence, and the volume derivation of fair profit.

Applications to financial markets, medicine, ecology, and biology are indicated. The framework provides a unified account of extraction, fairness, and systemic instability across domains.