AIM Framework glossary
Per-Transaction Minority Claim
Canonical definition
The claim that the Mimetic Premium is, in typical interpersonal transactions, a minority component of the integrated valuation produced by the Decision Hub, rather than a dominant one. PM accumulates and produces population-scale macro-residues by virtue of being non-satiating, unidirectional, and compounding, not by virtue of dominating any single transaction. PM-concealment by Source Opacity, Confabulation, and the Reciprocity narrative is feasible because PM is a thin layer in most exchanges; if PM were dominant per-transaction, the cognitive dissonance produced by Mimetically dominated transactions would overwhelm the Decision Hub's tag-stripping, Reciprocity narratives would visibly fail, and civilisational supercriticality would occur far more frequently than the empirical record displays. The Per-Transaction Minority Claim is a tightening of the framework, not a softening: PM needs only to be present, persistent, and unidirectional, compounding does the rest.
Explanation
M is not most of what is happening in any given exchange. It is a small slice. That is precisely why we cannot see it: the slice is thin enough that the rest of the exchange (A and I) makes the transaction make sense to both parties. M does its damage by accumulating across enormous numbers of small slices, not by dominating any single one. If M were the main ingredient, society would collapse far more often than it does. It is the persistence and the compounding that matters, not the per-transaction size.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct.
Derivation
Related terms
- Mimetic Premium (PM)
- Source Opacity (Axiom 3)
- Aggregation Gradient
- Low-Pass Filter Mechanism
- Confabulation
- Reciprocity narrative
- Unidirectional PM Flow Principle
- Build-Up Time Decomposition
- Macro-Residue Visibility Principle
- Boundedness Asymmetry Principle (architectural source of compounding asymmetry)