Definition
Power gained because others cannot cheaply make you answer for being wrong. A conventional rent comes from holding a scarce position; a corrigibility rent comes from holding a position whose wrongness is expensive to establish — through impossible complaint procedures, proprietary evidence, inaccessible records, inscrutable systems, monopoly expertise, catastrophic exit costs, or appeals that arrive only after the harm has become irreversible.
It matters because it names the portion of authority the framework systematically erodes: not power as such, but the part that survives only because contradiction has been made costly, ineffectual, or invisible. The presumption it reverses is the audit's center of gravity: an institution that wants consequential authority must build and maintain the conditions under which its own wrongness can be established and remedied.
Scale: Systemic · Phases: Audit, Repair · Measurability: Qualitative · Maturity: Core concept
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References
- Corrective standing · Term
- Laws · Doctrine