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But there is a paradox here: If your [[legaltech]] solution costs you something like two: that is, it continues to require costs and resources such that two represents a fair margin on work you continue to do, then ''this is not legaltech but something else.'' It may well be deft process-reengineering coupled with [[outsourcing]]<ref>[[Outsourcing]] has its own hidden costs and shortcomings, of course.</ref> —  but that is ''not'' [[legaltech]]. That is [[Management consultant|''management consultancy'']].  
But there is a paradox here: If your [[legaltech]] solution costs you something like two: that is, it continues to require costs and resources such that two represents a fair margin on work you continue to do, then ''this is not legaltech but something else.'' It may well be deft process-reengineering coupled with [[outsourcing]]<ref>[[Outsourcing]] has its own hidden costs and shortcomings, of course.</ref> —  but that is ''not'' [[legaltech]]. That is [[Management consultant|''management consultancy'']].  


If your solution really is legaltech: if the work needed to remove your ongoing cost of ten is achieved upon implementation done, there is no-longer an ongoing cost of ten. My question is now: what on earth am I paying this one for? .
If your solution really is legaltech: if the work needed to remove your ongoing cost of ten is achieved upon implementation done then, once I have paid for its implementation, why should I pay an ongoing marginal cost per unit?  


If the legaltech solution does not consume ongoing resources and costs, then once I have paid for its implementation, why should I pay an ongoing marginal cost per unit? The machine is solving my problem for nothing: the ongoing cost its vendor seeks is pure rent extraction.
My problem is solved. There is no longer an ongoing cost of ten. The machine costs nothing to operate. My question is now: what on earth am I paying this ongoing running cost ''for''? {{sa}}
 
 
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