CONCEPT
The Secondary Wave of Demand
The circuit that follows the initial discharge: AI's supply of cheap execution creating demand for expensive judgment, through the capability circuit rather than the income circuit alone.
After the initial discharge — after the stored creative pressure of six decades finds its channel and releases through the natural language interface — a secondary process begins. This is Say's Law operating in its most generative form: the creation of new demand by new supply. The mechanism operates at two levels. At the first, conventional level, AI-assisted production generates income in the standard way: a developer builds a product, sells it, spends the revenue on other products, completing the circuit Say described. At the second, more significant level, AI operates through what might be called the capability circuit: removing the friction of implementation does not merely free up time, it reveals a landscape of possibility that was previously invisible. The expanded capacity creates new demand — demand for skills, knowledge, and resources that were irrelevant when the scope of the conceivable was smaller.
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