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   "text": "Monetary policy instruments become ceremonial under AI driven production, because central banks inject liquidity on schedules calibrated for scarcity economies while production compounds exponentially and money supply grows only linearly.",
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   "text": "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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