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   "text": "A jurisdiction supplying corporate law as an unbundled statutory product faces low fixed costs, principally statute drafting, and near zero marginal costs, because additional users impose no new adjudication costs and registration costs are insignificant.",
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   "text": "No Member State currently has courts specializing in corporate law comparable to the Delaware Court of Chancery, and establishing such courts or upgrading existing ones would be expensive for most Member States, with high marginal costs as usage grows.",
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   "text": "Exponential improvement in compute efficiency combined with recursive self improvement of AI systems drives the marginal cost of additional intelligence and digital goods toward zero.",
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