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Humans remain the terminal consumers of AI generated value but cease to be its proximate driver, and this distinction is why traditional demand side economics loses descriptive accuracy in the agentic layer.

This distinction between terminal and proximate consumption is essential for understanding why traditional demand-side economics, which assumes that human consumption decisions directly drive production decisions at each margin, loses its descriptive accuracy in the agentic layer.

Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026), I.B. Agentic Decoupling as Ontological Break, p. 6
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Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

• applies to the agentic layer, not to immediate human consumption transactions

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• extended_by kaal:claim:6607458-009 Demand-side analyses that assume a proximate-consumption structure lose descriptive accuracy where the computa...

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