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   "text": "Economic institutions that rely on lagging indicators such as price signals, employment data, and GDP reports cannot detect AI driven transformation, because the transformation propagates faster than the monitoring systems built to observe it.",
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   "text": "The three dissolution mechanisms compound: marginal cost collapse undermines price signals, transformed asymmetry relocates the binding informational constraint to computational access, and cognitive labor substitution removes the bounded human decision-makers whose limits justified transaction-cost institutions.",
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