AIM Framework glossary
Mimetic Premium Floor Corollary
Canonical definition
Mimetic Premium is a premium on A-functional and I-adequate substrate and is therefore bounded below by zero (PM ≥ 0, per the price decomposition P = PA + PI + P_M). No intervention, including the Transmission Attenuation Principle, can drive PM negative; both attenuation channels govern the accretion rate and the inherited baseline, not the existence of PM. The limiting case of all attenuation is asymptotic approach to the pure A-I reciprocal-exchange condition (PM = 0), which is a floor, not a reachable terminal state, because the M-channel cannot be architecturally removed (Source Opacity Theorem). The Transmission Attenuation Principle therefore governs a rate; the Mimetic Premium Floor Corollary fixes its bound.
Explanation
You can slow down how fast status-premium builds up, and you can lower the baseline each generation starts from, but you can never push it below zero, because status-premium is by definition the extra on top of what something is actually worth for the body and for genuine interest. Once you strip all the extra away, you're at the plain A-I price, and that's the floor. You can approach it but never pass it, and you can never permanently rest there, because the status channel is built in and cannot be removed. This is why AIM aims at management, not elimination.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Corollary.