If you rely on a for-profit supplier, you should be required to carry the transaction costs to switch away from them as a form of debt in your books. Because the financing cost of this debt is what your supplier is eventually going to charge you.

Allowing to hide this debt is creating some of the largest economic problems of our time.

Raising such transaction costs is the main purpose why AI systems are currently being crammed into everything, as it's the mechanism how AI vendors expect to get even.

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