# kaal:claim:6421319-014

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- observed in the internet content economy

**Source quote.**

> 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, page 16

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

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**Failure mode.** Business Model Incoherence  (family: transition-and-migration-risk)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** institutional-obsolescence, business-models, internet-content, media-industry

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