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VALUE ENTRY

When value is allowed to enter the system.

Value does not begin at sale.
It begins before recognition, before pricing, and often before permission. 

Value Entry defines the point at which contribution becomes acknowledged inside the system. 

This constraint exists to prevent extraction that occurs before value is named.

The Distortion

In most production and trade systems, value enters early but is compensated late – or not at all.

 

This includes:

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  • unpaid labor

  • speculative work

  • samples and prototypes

  • design iterations

  • pre-production effort

  • “exposure” or future-promise work

 

These contributions are treated as pre-conditions, not value.

 

Once delivered, they cannot be withdrawn.
They become leverage within the system against the contributor’s position.

Where Extraction Occurs

Value Entry distortion appears when:

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  • Work is requested before terms are fixed

  • Production begins without binding commitment

  • Samples or prototypes are required without compensation

  • Labor is framed as “exploration,” “testing,” or “alignment”

  • Contribution is justified retroactively, after usefulness is proven

 

In these cases, value is captured upstream, while recognition is deferred downstream.

Structural Position

In the My Chakchouka system, value is recognized at the moment it becomes irreversible.

 

If a contribution:

  • consumes time

  • consumes material

  • consumes capacity

  • reduces future optionality

then it has entered the system.

 

At that point, it is no longer speculative.
It is structural.

Constraint Logic

The Value Entry constraint enforces three rules:​

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  1. No invisible contribution
    Work that cannot be undone cannot be treated as optional.
     

  2. No retroactive recognition
    Value is acknowledged before it is absorbed, not after it proves useful.
     

  3. No speculative absorption
    The system does not grow by harvesting unpaid future potential.

What This Prevents

Without this constraint, systems tend to:

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  • externalize early risk

  • normalize unpaid effort

  • convert goodwill into sunk cost

  • reward only outcomes, not contribution

 

This creates asymmetry long before price or margin appear.

 

Value Entry prevents extraction at the root.

What This Enables

When value entry is explicit:

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  • contribution becomes legible

  • negotiation becomes possible

  • dependency weakens

  • exits remain clean

  • labor continuity stabilizes

 

Downstream constraints depend on this one.

Position

This is not generosity.
This is boundary placement.

 

A system that cannot name when value begins
will always exploit what comes before.

PRICE FORMATION

When value enters the system.

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