# Zero marginal cost

`kaal:entity:zero-marginal-cost`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `zero-marginal-cost`. 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

3 claims across 1 works, 2026 to 2026.

**2026**

- [6421319-004](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-004) [mechanism/argued] -- Autonomous agents generate self reinforcing growth loops because they reinvest their own outputs, including new models, improved code, and refined datasets, back into the network without requiring any exogenous injection of scarce land, labor, or physical capital.
  > Autonomous agents reinvest their own outputs, such as new models, improved code, and refined datasets, back into the network. Thus, creating self-reinforcing growth loops that require no exogenous injection of scarce land, labor, or physical capital.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319
- [6421319-008](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-008) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The Marshallian supply and demand cross loses its analytical purchase when marginal cost approaches zero for the dominant inputs of the knowledge economy, because the upward sloping supply curve presupposes that additional output requires additional scarce inputs at increasing marginal cost.
  > When marginal cost approaches zero for the dominant inputs of the knowledge economy, the Marshallian cross loses its analytical purchase.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319
- [6421319-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-009) [mechanism/argued] -- Opportunity cost, the cornerstone of neoclassical rationality, approaches zero across a widening domain because an additional unit of sophisticated intelligence costs essentially nothing to produce and can be replicated instantaneously.
  > When an additional unit of sophisticated intelligence costs essentially nothing to produce and can be replicated instantaneously, the classic trade-off logic dissolves.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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