# Terminal consumption

`kaal:entity:terminal-consumption`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `terminal-consumption`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2026 to 2026.

**2026**

- [6421319-005](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-005) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > This distinction between terminal and proximate consumption is essential for understanding why traditional demand-side economics, which assumes that human consumption decisions directly drive production decisions at each margin, loses its descriptive accuracy in the agentic layer.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319
- [6607458-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6607458-009) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > The analytical consequence is that demand-side analyses that assume proximate-consumption structure lose descriptive accuracy in domains where the computative primitive holds. Welfare analysis in such domains must work at the terminal rather than proximate level.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6607458

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