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What agents actually buy: 42% of the machine economy is just looking things up

x402 pays a median of $0.0061 per call and an average of $0.46, and 42% of machine purchases are search and content retrieval. The numbers, the Upwork filing that shows the same re-plumbing hitting human marketplaces, and four rules I changed after reading them.

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