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id: "quote-cost-of-software"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["00:14:02"]
tags: ["economics"]
related: ["concept-creativity-cost-collapse", "claim-software-cost-zero"]
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
speaker: "Nate B. Jones"
sources: ["s48-markdown-design-meeting"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s48-markdown-design-meeting"
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---
# Cost of Software

## Quote

> "This is what we mean when we say the cost of software is falling to zero."

— [[entity-nate-b-jones|Nate B. Jones]] @ 14:02

## Why It's Pivotal

The **economic punctuation** in Jones's argument. After describing free [[entity-stitch|Stitch]] generations and free local [[entity-remotion|Remotion]] rendering, he names the macroeconomic phenomenon directly.

Grounds:
- [[concept-creativity-cost-collapse]] — the named concept.
- [[claim-software-cost-zero]] — the claim itself.

## Caveat

Enrichment overlay calls this **directionally correct but hyperbolic**. Marginal costs collapse; total costs at scale don't. Read as 'order-of-magnitude collapse' rather than literal zero.

## Related
[[concept-creativity-cost-collapse]] · [[claim-software-cost-zero]]