poorsed
Poorsed is a neologism used in some speculative sociolinguistic and economic discussions to describe the phenomenon whereby small or low-resource inputs cumulatively produce outsized social or economic effects through distributed action.
The term is usually treated as a portmanteau of poor and seed, intended to evoke the idea
As a noun, poorseed refers to the dynamic itself: the collective effect produced by many small contributions.
Poorsed is invoked in contexts such as grassroots fundraising, diffusion of information in online networks, local
The term overlaps with ideas in emergence, network effects, tipping points, collective action, and distributed leadership.
Critics caution that poorseed can be vague and may duplicate existing concepts, offering limited empirical guidance.
Network effects, emergence, grassroots organizing, collective action, tipping point.