Metered-Action Suppression

The dynamic that follows when a vendor sets its meter on an action the customer governs rather than on a value metric the customer cannot reduce without losing value. Because the bill scales with a behavior the buyer can choose to do less of, the buyer does less of it: caps internal usage, reserves the metered feature for high-value work, and routes the rest to a cheaper path. The suppression is invisible from the vendor side, because reduced consumption reads as demand already captured rather than demand the meter design suppressed.