Opinion: AI Drives Transaction Costs to Zero, Lowering the Cost of Regime Change
curious_vii · x · 2026-08-22
The author argues that a key trend is not yet priced in: as traditional corporate transaction costs, personalization, code generation, qualitative data compression, and broad-sense "search" costs decline, the cost of regime change is approaching zero.
This implies that existing organizational forms and industry barriers may face much faster disruption, as the barriers to restructuring and experimentation are significantly lowered.
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