# kaal:claim:6607458-016

**Claim.** Marginal cost collapse severs the price-cost relationship underlying competitive market theory: when additional realizations cost effectively nothing, the supply curve for realizations becomes horizontal at zero and pricing shifts to generative capacity.

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

**Holds when.**

- applies to information-intensive goods as generative infrastructure scales

**Source quote.**

> The supply curve for realizations becomes horizontal at zero. Pricing in the computative domain attaches to generative capacity rather than to the realization.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance* (2026), V. Three Dissolution Mechanisms, page 14

**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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**Failure mode.** Price-Cost Severance  (family: research-design-limitation)

**Topics.** tokenomics

**Keywords.** marginal-cost-collapse, pricing, supply-curve, information-goods

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