This document extends the Sofience–Δϕ Formalism into the economic field by interpreting money and capital through the framework of default power. Money is not treated merely as a medium of exchange, unit of account, or store of value. Instead, it is defined as a generalized capacity for cost editing: a means by which paths become cheaper, rollback becomes materially possible, and exception persistence may be sustained. Capital, by contrast, is not understood simply as accumulated money, but as a structure of default reproduction: a system that stabilizes favorable continuations across time while raising the rollback and re-entry costs of others. The distinction is therefore not quantitative but structural. Money alters the cost of movement within an existing field; capital reproduces the field in a way that repeatedly favors selected paths. Money can purchase continuation. Capital determines which continuations become normal. In this sense, money and capital belong to different layers of path power: money operates as movable leverage, while capital operates as self-reproducing path advantage. This document situates economic mediation within the broader SΔϕ architecture of irreversibility, rollback, exception re-entry, closure, and editability. Its central claim is simple: money edits paths; capital reproduces them.
Sofience (Mon,) studied this question.