# kaal:claim:5886442-040

**Claim.** Continued reliance on scarcity based models, human centric institutions and twentieth century regulatory architectures risks not mere inefficiency but civilizational irrelevance, that is regulatory obsolescence, catastrophic inequality and digital feudalism in which abundance accrues to whoever controls the compute substrate.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to jurisdictions that retain scarcity based regulatory models as agentic production scales

**Source quote.**

> Continued reliance on scarcity-based models, human-centric institutions, and twentieth-century regulatory architectures risks not mere inefficiency but civilizational irrelevance: regulatory obsolescence, catastrophic inequality, and the emergence of digital feudalism

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory* (2025), Conclusion, page 39

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442

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**Failure mode.** digital feudalism  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** digital-feudalism, regulatory-obsolescence, inequality, compute-control, policy

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-011

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