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+# CORPUS-0006
+## Delay Is Economic Cost
+### Status: Training Corpus Seed
+### Layer: Layer_0--Primitive_Facts
+### Purpose: Teach that time can create cost even when no coin is visibly paid
+### Repository Path: docs/training/corpus/Layer_0--Primitive_Facts/CORPUS-0006-delay-is-economic-cost.md
+
+---
+
+## 0. Principle
+
+Delay is cost.
+
+A trader may lose value even when no coin leaves his hand.
+
+Time can reduce profit by:
+
+- changing prices
+- tying up capital
+- increasing storage cost
+- increasing spoilage or breakage risk
+- missing another opportunity
+- weakening trust
+- delaying repayment
+- allowing rivals to act first
+
+A slow venture can fail even when the purchase and sale prices looked favorable.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Roman-Visible Example
+
+A trader buys oil in Ostia for 10 asses.
+
+He expects to sell it in Capua for 18 asses.
+
+The cart is delayed two days.
+
+During those two days:
+
+- storage costs rise
+- a rival shipment reaches Capua first
+- the Capua price falls
+- the trader cannot use the same coin for another venture
+
+No one has stolen the oil.
+
+Nothing has visibly changed about the amphora.
+
+But the venture has become worse.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Minimal Delay Structure
+
+Delay affects a venture through at least:
+
+1. time before departure
+2. travel time
+3. time waiting for sale
+4. storage duration
+5. price movement during waiting
+6. capital locked during waiting
+7. reputation effects from late delivery
+
+Time is not empty.  
+Time acts on value.
+
+---
+
+## 3. Incorrect Modern Assumption
+
+Incorrect assumption:
+
+> If the good is not damaged and no new fee is paid, delay costs nothing.
+
+Correction:
+
+> Delay can cost value through missed timing, falling prices, tied capital, storage, and lost trust.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Simulation Use
+
+This principle supports:
+
+- venture timers
+- route duration
+- storage fees
+- changing destination prices
+- missed opportunity
+- contract deadlines
+- information delay
+- reputation changes from late fulfillment
+
+The model should treat time as part of venture accounting.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Canonical Test
+
+If the model sees:
+
+> The trader waits three days before sending the goods.
+
+It must ask:
+
+- did prices change?
+- did storage cost increase?
+- did rivals act first?
+- did the buyer still need the good?
+- was capital locked during the wait?
+- did the delay damage trust?
+- did a better opportunity expire?
+
+Only then can the delay be evaluated.
+
+---
+
+## 6. Success Condition
+
+If the model stops treating delay as neutral and starts treating time as an economic force, this file is functioning correctly.