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alienist comments on Misapplied economics and overwrought estimates - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: alienist 20 January 2015 08:25:16AM 5 points [-]

(consider the situation if computer game demand was so high that 90% of the population worked as game developers)

It would still be decreasing cost since the marginal cost of serving an additional customer is the cost of him downloading a copy of the game.