# kaal:claim:6421319-009

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to intelligence and other instantaneously replicable inputs

**Source quote.**

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

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Collapse of Scarcity Economics* (2026), II.B. The Dissolution of Opportunity Cost, page 10

**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

**Topics.** economics

**Keywords.** opportunity-cost, neoclassical-economics, zero-marginal-cost, replication

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