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Hermes 9b2be10c77 Restructure economics doc into 27 org-roam interlinked nodes
Replace monolithic passepartout-economics.org with directory of
org-roam style nodes, each with :ID: property and cross-references
using [[id:uuid][title]] format.

27 nodes organized by theme:
- Core: index, triad overview, agora, stoa
- Revenue: verification appliance, domain gate packages, evaluation
  harness, skill marketplace, agora usernames, PDS service, compute marketplace
- Strategy: investment thesis, moats, licensing, patents, AI industry impact
- Analysis: lisp economics, sufficiency flip, time estimates, cost structure,
  gate rule encoding, upgrade lifecycle, biology parallels, symbolics comparison
- Big money: verification monopoly, infrastructure lock-in

Old file kept as archive with redirect links to new structure.
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:PROPERTIES:
:ID: 0b5a8a74-cfd6-542d-bc88-4eb3cd8626f9
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#+title: Cost Structure — Zero Marginal Cost
#+filetags: :passepartout:economics:cost:marginal:zero:
- **One-time cost:** gate-rule encoding for a domain (from hours for codified domains up to months for tacit domains)
- **Near-zero marginal cost:** ACL2 proof + Screamer consistency check + VivaceGraph lookup per interaction — all CPU-native, all in-image
- **No recurring LLM API costs** for the 80% symbolic reasoning layer
- **After sufficiency flip:** pennies per day vs dollars per day for LLM-only
The cost curve inverts: generation is expensive, verification is cheap. This is the inversion Passepartout exploits.
Token demand shifts from "every interaction burns tokens" to "only unfamiliar interactions burn tokens." Steady-state per-user LLM consumption drops by an order of magnitude.
See also: [[id:9af13fff-9725-542b-93b1-a555bc74ad72][Lisp economics]], [[id:45ea493b-94ad-5885-aa65-0c846e5c3c1d][Gate rule encoding]], [[id:efc76898-03f7-57ba-923d-35d65da88bb7][Sufficiency flip]]