# the going rate (moving-wall)

*Ordinarily means:* the price that people usually pay for something

the observed boundary of what a thing can cost, which shifts as others stop holding it in place and drift changes what is possible

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: economic  ·  Arena: market.economic

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless), [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [maintenance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-maintenance.upkeep)

**Through:** interaction.process

**Novel properties:**
- value.worth
- price.economic
- rate.ratio

## Examples
- In 2023, Nvidia's H100 GPU list price hit $30,000, setting a new ceiling for data center hardware costs. *(economics)*
- By 2022, U.S. insulin list prices reached $300 per vial, tripling over a decade as insurers kept paying. *(institutions)*
- The LHC's beam energy rose to 6.5 TeV per proton by 2015, marking a new limit for operational collider physics. *(physics)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-going-rate.moving-wall.json*  
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