# kaal:claim:6421319-005

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

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

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Collapse of Scarcity Economics* (2026), I.B. Agentic Decoupling as Ontological Break, page 6

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `0f4f68e56ee48bb8b2d73d3ab7fd96fa572e76c195694ffa740360704c1b172d` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202026%20-%20The%20Collapse%20of%20Scarcity%20Economics.pdf

**Failure mode.** Demand Side Descriptive Failure  (family: research-design-limitation)

**Topics.** economics, ai-and-agents

**Keywords.** terminal-consumption, demand-side-economics, agentic-decoupling, objection-response

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6607458-009

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