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Anxiety kept across the members of a collective self about income, prices and bills: some wall on these read as near, without a reading of which.

Economic anxiety (noun) means: Anxiety kept across the members of a collective self about income, prices and bills: some wall on these read as near, without a reading of which. It emerges from anxiety, collective self, self-model, keep: Each member's unlocated fear about the parameters it lives by is summed and kept at group scale, where it can be asked about and counted. Because no wall is named, the report attaches to whatever wall a story offers it. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

economic-anxiety.unlocated · forms: economic anxieties, economic anxiety, economic insecurity

Examples

Emergence

from: anxiety collective self self-model keep across member income price wall read near bill
through: Each member's unlocated fear about the parameters it lives by is summed and kept at group scale, where it can be asked about and counted. Because no wall is named, the report attaches to whatever wall a story offers it.

Chain to foundations

full chain as text (623 steps)

Neighborhood

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

built from — 4 more not showneconomic anxietyL20economic-anxiety.unlocated — Anxiety kept across the members of a collective self about income, prices and bills: some wall on these read as near, wianxietyL16anxiety.unlocated — Fear with no located wall: a self model reporting that some wall is near without a reading of which.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.keepL5keep.maintenance — to make something persist in a place or stateacrossL13across.spatial — from one side of a space to the other sidememberL7member.social — a person that is a part of a groupincomeL17income.financial — money that is received from workpriceL8price.economic — the piece of a thing that be given in an interaction

Relations

is-aanxiety.unlocatedanxiety at group scale, about the parameters members live by
contrasts-withpocketbook-issues.feltpocketbook issues name the parameters; economic anxiety is the unlocated report about them

Provenance

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