# kaal:claim:6607458-007

**Claim.** When alternatives are generated rather than given, opportunity cost changes its referent: it becomes the foregone quality of generative capacity under a different allocation of computational resources, migrating from the good to the infrastructure that generates it.

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

**Holds when.**

- holds where alternatives are generated rather than pre-specified

**Source quote.**

> It is the foregone quality of the generative capacity that would have been available if the computational resources had been allocated differently. Opportunity cost migrates from the good to the infrastructure that generates the good.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance* (2026), II.B. From Scarce Good to Generated Possibility Space, page 7

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6607458

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**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** opportunity-cost, generative-capacity, resource-allocation, computational-infrastructure

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