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+# CORPUS-0022
+## Rights Can Have Economic Value
+### Status: Training Corpus Seed
+### Layer: Layer_0--Primitive_Facts
+### Purpose: Teach that permissions, claims, access, priority, and use-rights can carry economic value even when they are not physical goods
+### Repository Path: docs/training/corpus/Layer_0--Primitive_Facts/CORPUS-0022-rights-can-have-economic-value.md
+
+---
+
+## 0. Principle
+
+A right can have economic value.
+
+Not all value is held as coin, goods, land, tools, carts, or buildings.
+
+Some value exists as the ability to do something, use something, claim something, enter somewhere, collect something, or act before others.
+
+Examples include:
+
+- right to use a stall
+- right to store goods
+- right to unload first
+- right to collect rent
+- right to draw water
+- right to cross a route
+- right to use a workshop
+- right to recover a debt
+- right to occupy a space
+- right to receive future delivery
+
+A right is not a physical good, but it can shape profit.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Roman-Visible Example
+
+A trader does not own a warehouse.
+
+But he has a recognized right to use one corner of a warehouse for ten days.
+
+That right allows him to:
+
+- hold goods before sale
+- wait for a better buyer
+- avoid immediate distress selling
+- keep goods dry
+- consolidate cargo
+- reduce handling cost
+- support a larger venture
+
+The trader owns no building.
+
+Yet the right to use space changes his economic capacity.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Minimal Right Structure
+
+A right should be evaluated by at least:
+
+1. holder of the right
+2. source of the right
+3. thing or action permitted
+4. duration
+5. exclusivity
+6. transferability
+7. cost or obligation attached
+8. enforceability
+9. who recognizes the right
+10. what happens if the right is challenged
+
+A right has value only if it can be used or recognized when needed.
+
+---
+
+## 3. Incorrect Modern Assumption
+
+Incorrect assumption:
+
+> Only physical objects have economic value.
+
+Correction:
+
+> A permission, claim, priority, or access right may create value by changing what an actor can do.
+
+A trader with a storage right may outperform a trader with more coin but no safe place to hold goods.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Simulation Use
+
+This principle supports:
+
+- warehouse rights
+- stall rights
+- unloading priority
+- ferry or crossing rights
+- usage permits
+- lease claims
+- rental claims
+- debt claims
+- access privileges
+- delayed delivery claims
+- legal enforceability
+- status-based access
+
+The model should not ignore economic value merely because no physical good changes hands.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Canonical Test
+
+If the model sees:
+
+> The trader has a right to use warehouse space.
+
+It must ask:
+
+- who recognizes the right?
+- how long does it last?
+- what goods may be stored?
+- is the right exclusive?
+- can it be transferred?
+- what does it cost?
+- can it be enforced?
+- what advantage does it create?
+- what happens if challenged?
+
+Only then can the right be evaluated.
+
+---
+
+## 6. Success Condition
+
+If the model stops treating value as only physical possession and starts recognizing rights, claims, permissions, access, and priority as economically meaningful, this file is functioning correctly.