Touchstone Terms

The surplus left over once needs are met. Who gets the extra share creates inequality and how it is spent shapes culture.

The tendency of a market to sort participants into worse and worse pools when one side of a deal knows more than the other.

When a person experiences a thought or behavior as consistent with who they are, rather than as an unwanted intrusion.

Tracing an abstract concept back to the experiences it came from, before mistaking the abstraction for a truer world.