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   "text": "Agentic Decoupling, defined as the progressive severance of value creation from human labor and consumption, is what distinguishes the AI transition from all prior technological transitions.",
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   "text": "Fiscal stimulus cannot restore employment that has been structurally eliminated by autonomous agents able to perform the same tasks at zero marginal cost, so the Keynesian transmission mechanism from aggregate demand to employment dissolves.",
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