AI supercharges demand over supply: digital deflation, scarcity inflation
signulll · x · 2026-09-15
signulll offers a framework: the internet, especially supercharged by AI, makes demand far more scalable than supply. Digital goods (text, feeds, content) trend toward pure deflation as supply wins, while physical, positional, emotional, scarce, and status goods see spectacular inflation as global demand pools converge on them. Understanding this split, he argues, explains many modern trends.
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