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money that is received from work

Income (noun) means: money that is received from work. It emerges from money, work, receive: work exerts effort and money is received through that process, forming income. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

income.financial · forms: income, incomes

Examples

Emergence

from: money work receive
through: work exerts effort and money is received through that process, forming income

Chain to foundations

nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryforceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionpriceL8 price.economic: the piece of a thing that be given in an interactionflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.systemL5 system.organized: a set of parts that interact together in a structurespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movecontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thinghappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.incomeL17 income.financial: money that is received from workrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youlinksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placeresourceL15 resource.material: output falling within the input window of a nearby system. The same substance, different neighbourhood.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.receiveL6 receive.communication: to get something that comes to a placesubstanceL12 substance.material: what remains through the drift a window toleratesstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placequantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacekeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or statefallL3 fall.gravity: When a thing moves down in space during time.numberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placeenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinginsideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarytimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.propertyL3 property.attribute: a state that a thing hasworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacepressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfacecarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceoffL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is theresetsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.moneyL16 money.economic: a resource that is a property of price and workparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.driftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.maintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numbersizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placetouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt frommiddle classL18middle-class.centre — A range of income and wealth that a collective self reads as its centre, making its boundary wider so that most members rentL18rent.income — Income from holding a parameter at a wall rather than from doing work. A change that removes a factory reduces output; aworking familiesL19working-families.broad — A collective self that makes its boundary wider to every family whose income comes from jobs, so that acting for them reeconomic anxietyL20economic-anxiety.unlocated — Anxiety kept across the members of a collective self about income, prices and bills: some wall on these read as near, wipocketbook issuesL20pocketbook-issues.felt — The parameters of members' own money, such as prices, income and bills, through which a collective self reads how near iincomeL17income.financial — money that is received from workmoneyL16money.economic — a resource that is a property of price and workworkL3work.effort — a change that happens when energy moves something through spacereceiveL6receive.communication — to get something that comes to a place

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middle classL18rentL18working familiesL19economic anxietyL20pocketbook issuesL20

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Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6