# investment (financial)

put money into thing for benefit later

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: emergence  ·  Arena: investment

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [money](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-money.economic), [risk](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-risk.uncertainty), [benefits](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-benefits.advantage), [later](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-later.temporal), [put](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-put.placement)

**Through:** money is put into a thing with risk in anticipation of benefits that emerge later

**Novel properties:**
- delayed return
- risk-bearing placement
- future-directed allocation

## Examples
- Warren Buffett invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs during the 2008 financial crisis. *(economics)*
- The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, required decades of funding and planning. *(engineering)*
- Mossad invested years recruiting assets ahead of Operation Bayonet in 1973. *(institutions)*

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