Value in motion — gifts, resources, assets, residuals. The house's economy of circulation, never extraction.
A held thing of value, kept because it will be needed. Named by its worth to a holder rather than by what it is.
A marketplace of many small independent sellers. Order arising from many hands rather than one plan.
Good that comes to someone from a thing. A benefit is always to someone, and naming who is half the claim.
Statements of what is owed. In this record the word carries weight — bills are the clock the escape runs against.
Organised activity carried on for exchange. Named from busy-ness — the state of being occupied.
Money in hand, immediately usable. Cash is value that needs no permission to spend.
A price asked, an electrical quantity, and a duty entrusted. All three are something laid on.
The passage from choosing to having. Where an intention becomes a transaction.
The exchange of goods and services at scale. Commerce is the machinery; whether it extracts or circulates is a design choice.
What one party adds to a common thing. A contribution is named from the giving side and measured on the common one.
Short form of corporation, and of corpus. A named abbreviation rather than a concept.
What a community agrees to treat as value in exchange. Currency works only because everyone expects everyone else to accept it.
The spreading of something across many holders, and the pattern that spreading makes. Who gets what, and in what shape.
Value given without exchange expected. A donation asks nothing back, which is what separates it from payment.
Concerning how value moves between people. Of the arrangements by which what is made reaches who needs it.
The whole system by which what is made reaches who needs it. Its root is household management — the ordering of a home.
The drawing of a part out of a whole. In this house the word carries a warning: extraction that takes without consent is what the license forbids.
Concerning money and its movement. Of the layer where value is counted rather than felt.
Something given without payment expected. What makes it a gift is the absence of obligation, on both sides.
A running account of what was given and received. A ledger's authority is that entries are added, never quietly changed.
Merismos (Greek μερισμός: apportionment, a dividing into parts). The splits, as data: a Merismos is columns — parts, roles, basis points, and each part's own yes with the moment it was given — dividing the artist's share and nothing else. Points are basis points and must sum to exactly 10000, so a role too small to be a percent is still an integer that cannot round to zero. Opt-in always, in KP1's own words "no force or deceptive theft": a part without consent is NAMED in every report and no path consents on anyone's behalf. A description of shares, never a promise of money — nothing in it moves a cent, holds a balance or names a payout. It divides an amount a consumer declares by the largest-remainder method, so integer cents sum to the amount exactly and deterministically; a split that does not close is told in plain words and left exactly as declared. Standalone by law: zero imports, no DOM, no disk, no clock, and nothing throws.
An opening that will not stay open. Named for the moment rather than the thing.
A named platform where supporters fund a maker directly. A named tool rather than a concept.
Support given so that work can continue. The supporter takes no ownership of what the support makes possible.
Value given in exchange for something received. Payment closes an obligation.
Above the standard offering, at a higher price. Premium is a claim about tier, not about quality.
What is asked in exchange. A price is a claim about worth, made by the seller and answered by the buyer.
What a making results in, offered to others. Named from the side of what comes out rather than what went in.
What is supplied in advance against a need. Provision is care made material before it is asked for.
To obtain by paying. Also a grip that lets force be applied — the same word for buying and for holding on.
A record that a thing was received. A receipt exists to protect the one who gave.
What remains and keeps returning after the first exchange is done. A share that continues rather than concludes.
Something available to be drawn on. Calling a thing a resource already frames it by its usefulness to someone.
An exchange of a thing for payment. A sale transfers what is held and settles the obligation.
A standing arrangement renewed over time rather than bought once. Access that continues while payment continues.
Whether a thing can keep going without consuming what it depends on. Sustainability is a question about time, not about virtue.
A share taken by an authority to fund what is held in common. Also any recurring cost a thing imposes.
Exchanges completed as single units — either wholly done or not at all. A transaction leaves no half state.
What a thing is worth. From the same root as strength and valour - value is not price but the capacity to hold up.
One who supplies goods or services for payment. Named by the exchange rather than the relationship.
A made thing offered to others. Goods considered from the side of the one who made them.