Equation 25 · When Generation Becomes Free, Attention Becomes the Scarce Good
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Second: through 2030, verification should move from a bundled externality to a priced input — organisations paying explicitly for checking rather than absorbing it in reviewers’ unpaid time. This is disconfirmed if checking remains unpriced and unstaffed while output volumes rise, which would instead indicate that institutions are absorbing the shift by lowering and accepting the resulting error rate.
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