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   "text": "Humans remain the terminal consumers of AI generated value but cease to be its proximate driver, and this distinction is why traditional demand side economics loses descriptive accuracy in the agentic layer.",
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   "text": "Demand-side analyses that assume a proximate-consumption structure lose descriptive accuracy where the computative primitive holds, because most transactions occur among agents; welfare analysis in those domains must therefore be conducted at the terminal rather than the proximate level.",
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