Object Transfer Principle

Canonical definition

The reciprocal valuation between two Individuals-as-Objects determines not only the social PM transfer between them (attention, deference, narrative authority, positional concession) but also the rate and direction of Object transfer between them. For any dyadic interaction in which Objects may change hands, the terms of exchange are governed by the same valuation architecture that governs social transfer. The party whose total valuation of the other is higher (relative to the other's valuation of them) accepts less favourable terms on Object transfer, yielding more Object-value than the A-I contribution alone would warrant. The difference between the terms accepted and the terms that A-I valuation alone would produce is the Mimetic Premium extracted through the exchange. Every price in every market is set through interactions between Individuals who are simultaneously Objects for each other; the PM embedded in any price originates in the PM-differentials operating across the population of transacting dyads. This is not an analogy to market pricing. It is what market pricing is, at the level of the Individual interaction from which markets are constituted.