Americans aren't short on economic reform ideas—antitrust proposals, labor reforms, and platform regulation have existed for decades. Yet reforms repeatedly stall, weaken, or reverse. This isn't because ideas are bad. It's because two critical political preconditions have never existed. The extractive economy described in Parts 1-3 cannot be corrected through policy tweaks or better leadership. It can only be corrected after specific political conditions are met and a deliberate sequence of structural reforms follows.
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