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   "text": "Centralized organization achieves efficiency through hierarchy: hierarchical structures let centrally organized entities allocate resources with minimal energy loss and identify and remove waste in the system.",
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   "text": "Because qubits hold multiple states simultaneously, quantum computers can perform complex calculations far faster than classical machines, and in a quantum economy this computational power can be used to solve intricate economic models, optimize resource allocation, and improve decision making across sectors.",
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   "text": "When alternatives are generated rather than given, opportunity cost changes its referent: it becomes the foregone quality of generative capacity under a different allocation of computational resources, migrating from the good to the infrastructure that generates it.",
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