No True Scotsman.

You are hung up on the definition of a word. The definition you are using is not flexible enough to encompass what is meant by the term.

Dumping is a term that most people would understand to describe the effect of the actions on the market. It is therefore appropriate to use in the discussion of the activity among lay people.

Name a single western country that is increasing in population through reproduction..

I agree. Please don't come here. Nothing of interest here.... Move along.

That precedent you are looking for has already been set. Just in the opposite direction from what you desired.

Most recently in Bartz v Anthropic it was held that training on copyrighted material without the copyright holders permission was transformative and thus protected under fair use. This ruling also held that training on illegally acquired copies of the material was a violation which irreparably tainted the resultant model.

Multiple recent rulings (Kadrey v Meta as well as Bartz v Anthropic) have further held that the output of an AI can be still be infringing (even if the training of the model was not infringing) if it substantially competes with the content on which it was trained. This is not blanket precedent, but an indication that each situation is different and economic impacts should be taken into account when determining if fair use applies.

For several years, I had Comcast cable TV because it was $10 less per month to have Internet + TV than just Internet (and Comcast waived the cap if you had both, but enforced the cap if you had Internet only.)

This was several years ago. Now there are other providers that service my home, and it is cheaper to just have internet. (a LOT cheaper)

43,800,000,000 per year
forty-three trillion, eight hundred billion. per year

World GDP
113.8 trillion in 2025

Somehow I doubt these numbers are correct.

Reality does not care whether you believe in it or not. Change is happening. People are making it worse.

In a few generations things are going to be unrecognizable. Floods, droughts, famine, disease, and wars over increasingly limited resources. They are already happening, but they will intensify.

Ignore it if you wish. You will be dead long before it gets bad.

I, too, remember when folks did the same with Baseball cards and had also not heard / seen anything about it in a long time. So I asked an LLM what the current market size is:

Doesn't appear that it has gone away..

Oh great and wise one, let's hear your solution.

P.S. it's not all economics you retard. We'll break it down to a single product: Gold. Explain to the rest of us "barely evolved monkeys" how you'd deal with more demand than supply. You have to account for its industrial & commercial uses and no, you don't get to substitute it for another material. Assume that you're making something that needs Gold for its intrinsic properties (conductivity, resistance to corrosion, etc). If you don't like Gold, fine..Use Uranium or Plutonium for the exercise (maybe you're building a radio-isotopic generator or something)

How?

By making public education a public good, paid for by the public (aka government, aka taxes) and setting real requirements to participate: grades and test scores to get in to college, can't keep up = flunk out. Community College and Trade Schools for the rest of us.

Teachers have to teach for a living. Drop "publish or perish" requirements. Researchers are not teachers. Research institutions are not schools (although they could offer internships for students to learn practical research skills while contributing to a researcher's work.)

Dorm life should be more like boot-camp living and less like a luxury vacation. A shared room, simple nutritious dining hall food, campus work-requirements, etc. This will reduce overhead costs.

Private schools can continue to charge whatever their customers will pay to be "elite". They can admit a percentage of exceptional (but $ poor) students and continue to teach the best and brightest as well as the richest in exchange for tax breaks.

Remove all government involvement in student loans. Lenders will stop loaning money for private school education without government backing. Private schools outside of the elite private universities will fade away.

Make Education Great Again. No really -make it something to be earned and valued instead of just another check-box on the job application filter.