Words

Glossary

The words we use, defined plainly.

Agentic software factory: A pipeline where AI agents plan, spec, build, test, review and ship software with a human owner directing it.
American Equity Fund: Sam Altman's proposal: collect an annual 2.5% of the value of large companies and private land, paid in shares, and distribute it to every adult citizen.
Builder score: A 0 to 100 rating of how useful an item is for building or owning income-producing assets, digital or physical. It does not rate how big the AI news is. Sample scores in this draft are placeholders.
Builder's brief: The daily, weekly and monthly report: what changed, what it costs to build now, and where the openings are.
Capital share: The portion of income that goes to owners of capital. What labor loses, capital gains.
Creative destruction: Schumpeter's phrase for how entrepreneurial profit pushes innovation forward by replacing the old with the new.
i/accum: Short for individual accumulationism. Also the name of this site and feed.
Income-producing infrastructure: Assets that pay you while you sleep: software, businesses, equity, land, compute, energy, machines.
Individual accumulationism: The movement of young men building as much income-producing infrastructure, digital and physical, as they can. The individual is the point, not isolation.
Labor share: The portion of income that goes to workers as pay. The BLS nonfarm business measure hit 52.8% in Q2 2026.
Local knowledge: Hayek's point that dispersed people acting on what they know outperform any central plan.
MCP: Model Context Protocol. A standard way for AI agents to call tools. i/accum exposes its feed as MCP tools.
Owner: The person who holds the asset and receives what it produces. The role i/accum is built around.
Pick: A feed item the pipeline selected as worth a builder's time.
Stack: What it costs to build: live AI API and GPU rental prices from public sources, each cited.
Story: A cluster of feed items about the same event or theme.
Universal basic income (UBI): A regular unconditional cash payment to everyone. A floor, not ownership.
Universal high income (UHI): The idea that AI-driven abundance makes a high standard of living broadly available, not just a basic floor. Elon Musk used the phrase on November 2, 2023.