# pain at the pump (felt-price)

*Ordinarily means:* the hardship people feel from high fuel prices

One price that members of a collective self see daily and read as the sign of all their walls, so its rise reads as every wall moving nearer.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [measure](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-measure.quantitative), [price](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-price.economic), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [see](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-see.visual), [daily](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-daily.temporal), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [sign](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sign.symbolic), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [rise](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rise.movement), [motion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-motion.movement), [near](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-near.spatial)

**Through:** A price seen daily is easy to read, so the collective self uses it as the instrument for all its walls; a rise in it reads as the whole window narrowing, whatever other prices do.

**Novel properties:**
- one price standing for the whole window
- a reading instrument chosen by how often it is seen

## Examples
- Fuel prices are shown in large numbers on roadside signs, so drivers see them change more often than most prices they pay. *(economics)*

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