kaal:claim:6421319-014

Newspapers, record labels, broadcast networks, and publishing houses did not merely lose market share under zero marginal cost distribution; their foundational business models became structurally incoherent because those models assumed distribution was scarce and costly.

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Their foundational business models, built on the assumption that distribution was scarce and costly, became structurally incoherent.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026), III.D. Internet Content as Empirical Microcosm: The Supply Curve That Already Disappeared, p. 16
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Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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observed in the internet content economy

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failuresupport: evidencedfailure: Business Model Incoherencefamily: transition-and-migration-riskinstitutional-design

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