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The reach to buy that the members of a collective self report when asked, a report that moves what they then buy.

Consumer confidence (noun) means: The reach to buy that the members of a collective self report when asked, a report that moves what they then buy. It emerges from morale, reach, collective self, self-model: Households' self-reads of their reach are asked for and summed into a number; since each member acts on its own read, the number partly makes the spending it reports. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

consumer-confidence.measured · forms: consumer confidence, consumer sentiment

Examples

Emergence

from: morale reach collective self self-model measure buy member report asks motion time
through: Households' self-reads of their reach are asked for and summed into a number; since each member acts on its own read, the number partly makes the spending it reports.

Chain to foundations

full chain as text (393 steps)

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built from — 3 more not shownconsumer confidenceL17consumer-confidence.measured — The reach to buy that the members of a collective self report when asked, a report that moves what they then buy.moraleL16morale.collective — The reach a collective self reads itself as having, kept across its members at one time.reachL13reach.action — Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.collective selfL15collective-self.shared — A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one self-modelL14self-model.reflexive — A model in a thing whose subject is the thing that holds the model.measureL11measure.quantitative — knowing where the walls of a parameter are without having to reach thembuyL9buy.economic — to get a product by giving pricememberL7member.social — a person that is a part of a groupreportL8report.information — a message that states information about an event

Relations

is-amorale.collectivemorale measured among members acting as buyers
contrasts-withinvestor-sentiment.readsame self-read, held by investors and also read from prices
contrasts-withfeel-good-factor.risingthe feel-good factor is the unmeasured, political reading of the same rise

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md