# kaal:claim:6421319-015

**Claim.** The internet content case shows that when one form of scarcity disappears, economic power migrates to whoever controls the next binding constraint, which for internet content was the platform infrastructure for discovery and distribution rather than the content itself.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- generalized from platform intermediaries such as Google, Meta, and Amazon

**Source quote.**

> This last observation directly reinforces the binding-constraint analysis in Section II.D: when one form of scarcity disappears, economic power migrates to whoever controls the next binding constraint.

**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.** Power Migration to Next Constraint  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** economics

**Keywords.** platform-power, binding-constraint, scarcity-migration, internet-content

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