[Ologn]

The cost of production for the base product hasn't become irrelevant, the cost of the inductive product has become irrelevant. The cost for an AAA single player game going gold is expensive, but once done - selling the next copy costs next to nothing. Same with the budget of a movie like Way of Water - it costs hundreds of millions to make, but distribution costs are very low after that.

[martynr]

Fair point, probably should have said something like “[marginal cost of re-]production”