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Opportunity cost, the cornerstone of neoclassical rationality, approaches zero across a widening domain because an additional unit of sophisticated intelligence costs essentially nothing to produce and can be replicated instantaneously.

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When an additional unit of sophisticated intelligence costs essentially nothing to produce and can be replicated instantaneously, the classic trade-off logic dissolves.

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Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026), II.B. The Dissolution of Opportunity Cost, p. 10
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Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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applies to intelligence and other instantaneously replicable inputs

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mechanismsupport: arguedeconomics

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