# risk appetite (width)

How near a wall the members of a collective self will act, read from what they choose: wider as their reach reads large, narrower as walls read near.

- 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), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [near](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-near.spatial), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [choose](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-choose.decision), [wide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wide.spatial), [large](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-large.size), [narrow](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrow.spatial)

**Through:** Choices of what to hold are read as a statement of how close to the wall members are willing to go; that closeness tracks the shared read of reach and of wall nearness.

**Novel properties:**
- affect read from holdings
- a willingness measured as distance to a wall

## Examples
- Market analysts call days when investors buy stocks and sell government bonds 'risk-on', and the reverse 'risk-off'. *(finance)*

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