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# CORPUS-0010
## Credit Depends On Trust
### Status: Training Corpus Seed
### Layer: Layer_0--Primitive_Facts
### Purpose: Teach that credit is value extended because another actor expects repayment, performance, or enforceable remedy
### Repository Path: docs/training/corpus/Layer_0--Primitive_Facts/CORPUS-0010-credit-depends-on-trust.md
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## 0. Principle
Credit depends on trust.
A person may receive goods, coin, time, or service now because another person believes repayment or performance will happen later.
That belief may come from:
- reputation
- prior dealings
- witnesses
- written records
- collateral
- family standing
- legal access
- fear of consequences
- mutual obligation
Credit is not free money.
It is delayed settlement under risk.
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## 1. Roman-Visible Example
A trader lacks enough coin to buy oil today.
One seller refuses him.
Another seller allows him to take the oil and pay after sale in Capua.
The oil is the same.
The trader is the same.
The difference is trust.
The second seller believes the trader will return, repay, or be held accountable.
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## 2. Minimal Credit Structure
Credit requires at least:
1. lender or seller
2. borrower or buyer
3. value advanced
4. expected repayment or performance
5. time before settlement
6. reason for trust
7. consequence if trust fails
Without trust or enforceability, credit collapses.
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## 3. Incorrect Modern Assumption
Incorrect assumption:
> Credit is only a formal loan.
Correction:
> Credit can also appear as delayed payment, goods advanced before payment, partnership confidence, tolerated delay, or reputation-based access.
Credit may be informal but still economically powerful.
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## 4. Simulation Use
This principle supports:
- credit_capacity
- deferred payment
- trust relationships
- witness importance
- collateral
- reputation effects
- failed repayment
- access differences between actors
The model should not treat credit as available equally to all actors.
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## 5. Canonical Test
If the model sees:
> The trader can buy without immediate coin.
It must ask:
- who trusts him?
- why is he trusted?
- is there a witness?
- is there collateral?
- what is the repayment term?
- what happens if he fails?
- does his status affect access to credit?
Only then can the credit be understood.
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## 6. Success Condition
If the model stops treating credit as automatic borrowing and starts treating credit as trust extended under risk, this file is functioning correctly.