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He stops short of treating information goods or symbolic systems whose marginal energy cost approaches zero yet whose economic value remains high. He treats entropy degradation and economic scarcity as essentially the same phenomenon. The synthesis separates them: physical entropy sets hard constraints while scarcity also depends on institutions, substitution, and knowledge. 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