Six-Criteria Saleability Rubric
Menger's empirical scorecard, applied. Divisibility, durability, transportability, homogeneity, widespread demand, freedom from political weaponization. All six are observable properties — not subjective preferences.
Presets from the corpus
Can the asset clear transactions across a wide range of value sizes without loss of saleability at small or large units?
Does the asset survive across time without corrosion, decay, or substrate impairment? Conditional substrate dependencies count against this.
Can value be moved across distance and borders without permission, mass penalty, or counterparty intermediation?
Are units fungible against one another, or does the asset develop "good" and "bad" units (tainted, marked, vintage-stratified)?
Is the asset accepted by a broad enough counterparty base that exchange can be cleared on demand without price concession?
Can the asset be seized, frozen, sanctioned, or politically denied by an authority the holder does not control?
Composite saleability
4.17
out of 5.00 (unweighted mean)
Mid-high tier
Score profile
Note from the corpus
Menger's high-tier reference asset. Transportability is the historical weakness; modern central-bank custody arrangements compromise the freedom-from-weaponization score.
On weighting. Menger did not weight the criteria. He treated all six as components of an empirical assessment of how a good actually performs in market exchange. The composite shown here is an unweighted mean — a deliberately simple aggregator. Different weighting schemes (e.g., assigning near-infinite weight to freedom-from-weaponization, as Bitcoin maximalists effectively do) produce different rankings; the framework's position is that the unweighted profile is the honest read.