The threshold

When does a holding become parasitic by propagation?

Not at inequality. Not at size. Not at envy.

At the point where its continued exclusive running prevents other operators from keeping or widening paths the shared structure has reason to preserve — and what gives it reason is derived, not chosen: the original, Chapter One, walks it from the four conditions. And where that prevention is not needed for the holding to do its own cooperative work.

A large holding can sit under the threshold. A small one can cross it through the pattern of its accumulation across many sites. A single source of something everyone needs crosses it the moment its price or its terms exclude those who need it.

The structure does not fix the number in advance. It fixes what the number must answer to: contraction of others’ paths, reversibility, and whether a cooperative alternative was available.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

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