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If a small number of hyperscale firms control electricity contracts, GPU supply chains, and data center locations, the collapse of cognitive scarcity produces digital feudalism in which abundance accrues to the controllers of the compute substrate while the rest of the economy faces artificial scarcity imposed through infrastructure gatekeeping.

The result would be a new form of digital feudalism in which abundance accrues to the lords of the compute substrate while the rest of the economy remains subject to artificial scarcity imposed through infrastructure gatekeeping.

Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026), II.D. The Binding-Constraint Cascade: Electricity, Compute, and the Risk of Scarcity Reorientation, p. 12
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• conditional on concentrated control of the physical AI substrate

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• extends kaal:claim:5886442-040 Continued reliance on scarcity based models, human centric institutions and twentieth century regulatory archi...

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