V — Value

In IO, value is not a preference or moral claim. It is a persistence constraint: a structural condition that must remain satisfied for the system to continue.

The diagram below is intentionally simple. It is an intuition builder, not a proof.

V — Value as a Persistence Constraint

Value (V) in IO is not preference or desire. It is the structural condition that must remain satisfied for the system to continue.

The system does not “aim” for the band — it simply ceases to persist when the constraint is violated.