Business After Survival: Exit Asymmetry, Institutional Dependency, and the Arithmetic of Sovereignty

By Caspian Lux

Most institutions do not fail.
They persist past necessity.

Business After Survival is a constraint-based operating system for measuring institutional dependency and calculating whether exit is survivable, premature, or catastrophic. Not a guide. Not advice. Arithmetic.

Modern organizations increasingly preserve continuity rather than solve coordination problems. Participation is sustained through engineered asymmetry rather than choice. Professionals remain not because they decide to-but because leaving has been made prohibitively expensive.

Inside are operational diagnostics including the Exit Asymmetry Index, Displacement Coefficient, Dependency Stack, Leverage Equation, and explicit halting conditions to prevent mis-execution.

There are no case studies.
No inspiration.
No promises.

If execution reduces exit asymmetry, the system is valid.
If it does not, discard it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJBJMMCJ
• ISBN13: 9798233545559
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Obsidian Signal
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"