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Exponential unit complexity.
In the Ultra Corps game there are four levels of Zenrin Monk and each step takes about ten times as much effort as the previous step. For example in the time it takes you to build one level 4 Zenrin you could have built 889 level 1 Zenrin. (But it only takes 45 times as much "gold" as building a single level 1 Zenrin, assuming you have the licenses and inflation doesn't kick in.)
In the Dungeons and Dragons games it also takes exponentially more experience to gain the next level, but it's more often doubling than an order of magnitude.